Yana Armoot’s journey to Lincoln started by waiting in a line that stretched for miles.

Armoot, her husband Ahmed and their son and daughter lived out of their car for four days waiting in traffic to make it out of Ukraine to Poland. Armoot and her husband traded off driving and sleeping so that they wouldn't lose their place in line.

“It was really difficult because a lot of Ukrainians start(ed) to try to escape the country, and the line with cars was like 80 miles long,” Armoot said about the exodus of people when Russia invaded in 2022.

Many Ukrainians who left the country, like the Armoot family who came to the U.S. in August 2022, have found a new start in Lincoln while keeping an eye on their homeland at a time when U.S. support for the country has been shifting, ceasefire talks c

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