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Business Daily: Ukraine war: Refugees starting again

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Ukraine war: Refugees starting again

21/02/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Daily, Ukraine war: Refugees starting again

We hear from three Ukrainian refugees rebuilding their lives and their businesses.

Around eight million people left Ukraine in the last 12 months leaving behind homes, jobs and businesses. We hear what it has been like trying to rebuild and start again.

It is estimated almost eight million people have left Ukraine in the past 12 months. They have all had to start again, finding housing, schools and a way to earn a living. Some have managed to carry on running their businesses and others have set up new companies in the countries they now call home. 

Business Daily has been hearing some of their stories of remarkable resilience. Volodymyr and Regina Razumovskaya, now living in Perth, Western Australia, tell us about first leaving Donetsk in 2014 only to be forced to leave their new home and business in Kyiv eight years later. 

Polina Salabay describes the moment she realised she had to leave her home and dance school business behind in Lviv. She now lives in Canada and runs Polli’s Dance teaching Canadian and Ukrainian children. And Anastasia Kozmina and boyfriend Oleksiyy Danko, tell us how they turned their side hustle into a business when they moved to England. 

Presenter / producer: Alex Bell 
(Image: Polli's Dance: Credit: Polina Salabay)

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