In our newsfeeds, on our TVs, we see a growing list of Ukrainian cities: Kyiv, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Odessa. For many of us Americans, they are just points on a map. Places the Russian military has bombed or might bomb. But for Sofiya Alexandra, a Ukrainian immigrant living in LA, they are so much more. They are her homeland, her culture, her heart.
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