«We should all be shot if we don't speak Ukrainian,» jokes Olha Vasyliva, a retired woman from the Kherson region. Now her city is under Russian occupation, so she is forced to live in Ternopil.
Olha is one of the participants of the «Slovo» conversation club, which has been working in the city since the end of March. And only thanks to the volunteer initiative of local teachers of the Ukrainian language.
«I don't want to speak Russian while the occupier speaks it,» says Vitalii Antonov from Pokrovsk, Donetsk region. He attends classes with his wife twice a week.
How Russian-speaking migrants are perceived in Ternopil and how difficult it is to start speaking Ukrainian after Russian - hromadske's Mariana Pietsukh found out.
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14 июн 2022
