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PBS News Hour - Segments

Ukrainian family rebuilds life in Minnesota after fleeing Russian invasion

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Since Russia invaded Ukraine more than two years ago, about 6.5 million Ukrainians have left the country. One of them is 10-year-old Artem Fedorenko, who lost part of his arm in a Russian bombing that killed his father and brother. Today, he and his mother Oksana are rebuilding their lives in suburban Minneapolis with help from the Minnesota-based Protez Foundation. MPR News brings us their story. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Since Russia invaded Ukraine more than two years ago, about six and a half

0:05.0

million Ukrainians have left the country, including hundreds of thousands who have come

0:08.8

to the United States. One of them is 10-year-old Artem Federinko. Just days after the war began, he lost part of his arm

0:16.4

in a Russian bombing that killed his father and brother. A Minnesota group that helps Ukrainians

0:21.4

who've lost limbs brought Art attempt to America for a prosthetic

0:24.8

arm and today he and his mother Oxana are rebuilding their lives in suburban Minneapolis.

0:30.5

This story comes to us from Minnesota Public Radio News.

0:34.0

Yeah, sure.

0:42.0

Okay. So this is our kitchen. We like it. Very nice table for our big family.

0:49.0

We like it. Very nice table for and big yard.

0:55.0

Table for our big family.

1:07.0

Nice deck and big yard. My name is Oxana. I live Ukraine, Kyiv.

1:11.0

My name is Inna Carpenko.

1:13.0

We're still a liquid

1:15.0

there's no idea. Yeah, we became big, friendly family.

1:20.0

Yeah, where we are. We have no, what now is what it's a duh deh dobrem.

1:27.0

We have each other and it's wonderful.

1:30.0

We are very grateful.

1:32.0

I have really good friends here and everybody is so nice.

1:37.0

I don't know why but I draw like a rainbow.

1:41.0

I like to draw that smile. name is nica and I am eight

1:47.0

are them nine years almost. He likes his class, teachers, and food. He talks. Food. That is his first, yeah.

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