Trump threats to revoke status unsettle Ohio’s Ukrainians: ‘The stress is real’
Thousands of Ukrainians who call Cleveland home are in limbo as fate of temporary protected status remains murky
Mykola Vashchuk may be thousands of miles from Kyiv, his home town, but life has never been busier.
He runs pierogi food businesses here in Cleveland and back in Ukraine, works part-time for a local charity, while studying for a law degree at Cleveland State University. His wife works at a daycare and the couple is raising two sons. He and his family have built a new life on the shores of Lake Erie, having fled Ukraine after a Russian bomb blew out two windows of their Kyiv apartment in December 2022.
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