‘We will win.’ Local Ukrainian Americans pray for war-torn nation, marking 4 years since Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Two days after the [ Feb. 24, 2022 ][24] , Russian invasion of Ukraine, Myhailo Yavorskyi of Chicago returned to defend the country of his birth as a volunteer soldier with the Ukrainian army. “At that time, everyone was fleeing from Kiev — and he was going toward Kiev,” recalled his mother Maria Y...