Tetiana Kotelnykova GRD ’25 lived through two major conflicts. The first came when she was displaced in 2014 by Russia’s war in Donetsk, Ukraine, and the second during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine while she was completing her studies in Kyiv. Over the summer, the program ImpactUA — organized by Kotelnykova’s group, Brave Generation — sent two current Yale students and one recent graduate to work as interns in Ukraine. “I had noticed that many American students struggled to grasp what daily life looks like under the conditions of war, and that Ukrainians were often disheartened by how American politics framed or overshadowed their struggle,” Kotelnykova wrote to the News. “I wanted to show American students that the war is not distant or abstract — it affects real people, every day.”
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