These days the Ukrainian war veteran drives a trolley up and down aisles of a supermarket warehouse in rural Poland and loads it with grocery items. Many Ukrainians work abroad for only a few months at a time, returning home often due to legal restrictions in EU countries. The country attracting the most Ukrainians has been Poland, population 38 million, where some 1.2 million Ukrainians now work, according to the central bank. Of the 600 employees at the supermarket warehouse where Lytvynenko, the Ukrainian war veteran, works, 43 per cent are Ukrainians. Olena Aleksiychuk, a 31-year-old Ukrainian dentist, left behind her parents, a home and her private dental practice in western Ukraine four years ago.

Source: National Post March 25, 2019 07:30 UTC