OSHKOSH (NBC 26) — Vladyslav Plyaka, a Ukrainian student at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, hosts advocacy events to spread awareness about the war in Ukraine.

Vladyslav Plyaka came to Wisconsin three years ago for a high school exchange program

Plyaka helped host “Drones – The Game Changers of the War in Ukraine," an exhibit at the UWO campus on Wednesday, Sept. 24

The exhibit was a part of UWO Center of Civic and Community Engagement

Vladyslav Plyaka was born in Ukraine.

He came to Wisconsin as a high school exchange student and planned to stay in the United States for nine months.

“Because of the increasing Russian invasion of Ukraine, I couldn’t come back home to Ukraine, so I applied for colleges and that’s how I ended up here at UW Oshkosh,” Plyaka says.

While he doesn’t

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