With Moscow continuing to wage scorched-earth campaigns in the east and south, Ukrainians have abandoned their homes in droves. Many have headed to areas in western Ukraine. Their journey represents a massive and very fluid demographic shift.
ILNYTSYA, UKRAINE — Every morning after waking up early in Kharkiv, Oleksii Vakhrushev would make a round of phone calls to all of his employees and check if they were all right after another long night of shelling.
East and west are growing closer, Vakhrushev believes. “We teach them, and they teach us,” he explained. The divisions in Ukrainian society are often overstated, but differences among the country’s regions do exist. Ukraine’s west is mostly rural, Ukrainian-speaking and infused with Central European culture. The east and south are largelyalso felt more Russian. Many of the country’s largest cities are in the east and south, as was much of its heavy industry before the Russian invasion.
Before World War II, Uzhhorod was about a third Jewish. The Holocaust and postwar emigration decimated that population. Bespalov and Kirilyuk are both of Jewish descent and discovered that they shared a dream of opening a restaurant serving traditional foods. They rented an abandoned space on a small side street in what was once Uzhhorod’s Jewish quarter and opened at the end of June. A large menorah stands in the front window.
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