About 100 Nebraskans and Ukrainians, including Nebraska's governor, lieutenant governor, a congressman and multiple state senators, joined an event at the House of Prayer in north Lincoln honoring the union of the U.S. and Ukraine since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Nov. 7, 2025. (Zach Wendling/Nebraska Examiner)

LINCOLN — Members of the Ukrainian community in Nebraska honored dozens of neighbors at an appreciation event Friday that spotlighted support for Ukraine during the nearly four years since Russia invaded.

House of Prayer lead pastor Oleg Stepanyuk, who is from Lviv in western Ukraine, near the Polish border, estimated that about 90% of displaced Ukrainians in Nebraska passed through the church.

He said the house of worship in north Lincoln “lived up to the c

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