Ukrainian president Zelenskiy will deliver virtual address at Davos. Europe and Russia, 2022: A fast-changing continent in five graphics. The former supervisor in a printing company soon saw how having to take refuge in the basement every time air sirens went off was traumatising her five year old in particular, and they said goodbye to her husband, a police detective now deployed to the military. Everything will be alright.’ The first bomb was near our town at the airport. Since Christmas, Tetiana’s mother had been telling her “pack your bags and your documents” but until an explosion at an airport near her town on February 24th, she had laughed off her mother’s concerns. They did not know anyone in Ireland but Tetiana ‘s “best friend from school”, now a lecturer in Manchester, had advised her to fly to Ireland as visa requirements had been waived for Ukrainians. The two women met shortly after Tetiana arrived at Dublin Airport on March 2nd with her daughters Sofia (16), Marta (15) and Yana (5) having fled their home. 
McNabb, a senior executive with Kildare County Council, has been working on a project with Tetiana which they hope will, by the end of August, make Ireland seem a little bit familiar to recent arrivals from Ukraine. In a way Tetiana, who has three daughters, is luckier than her sister who remains in Ukraine because she would not leave behind her son (20), who was required to stay, explains Jacqui McNabb. Tetiana Pankiv from the town of Stryy near Lviv in western Ukraine has made a lot of friends in Tullow, Co Carlow, but since learning that her husband was being deployed to fight in the east of the country: “I cry every day”.
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