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8/7/2023 – Ukrainians move to North Dakota for oil field jobs to help families facing war back home

Maksym Bunchukov, Andrii Hryshchuk and Ivan Sakivskyi help themselves to perogies at a lunch hosted Monday, July 17, 2023, by the Ukrainian Cultural Institute in Dickinson, North Dakota. The three Ukrainians are among the first recruits of the North Dakota Petroleum Council’s Bakken Global Recruitment of Oilfield Workers program. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)ASSOCIATED PRESS

From Yahoo News by JACK DURA:

DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) — Maksym Bunchukov remembers hearing rockets explode in Zaporizhzhia as the war in Ukraine began.

“It was terrible,” he said. He and his wife sent their adult daughter west to Lviv for safety and joined her later with their pets.

Now, about 18 months after the war broke out, Bunchukov is in North Dakota, like thousands of Ukrainians who came over a century ago.

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