Ukraine couple has lives turned upside-down by the war: Travel Weekly

The lives of Kyiv-based tour operators Julia Kulyk and Aleksandr Skrypka, and their daughter, Polina, had been turned upside-down when Russia invaded Ukraine.

Travel Weekly has chronicled components of their journey – their options to depart and then Julia and Polina’s risk-free arrival in the Netherlands.

Julia has considering the fact that gotten a task with the U.S.-dependent OTA Kimkim, vetting inbound tour operators in Southeast Asia for feasible inclusion on the company’s platform. When it brought its employees to the U.S. for a meeting final thirty day period, Travel Weekly editor in main Arnie Weissmann achieved with Julia in Los Angeles to get an update on her circumstance.

She claimed that Aleksandr, who is unable to legally leave Ukraine for the reason that all guys underneath age 60 have to keep on being in the state, is nevertheless in Kiev, operating with good friends to increase revenue and supply meals and other assets to aged citizens in tiny cities nearby. Polina is enrolled in a school in the Netherlands.

The situation is hard: At Easter, Julia and Polina were being able to reunite for a weekend in Lviv, but the loved ones misses 1 yet another terribly, and Julia and Polina are quite homesick.

Julia and Polina are receiving by, but Julia would like to take on more get the job done on evenings and weekends. “If there is a person in the U.S. vacation field who could use some freelance support with vacation internet marketing, in particular social media, I can help. Make sure you have them get to out to me at my previous company’s e-mail tackle: [email protected],” she informed Weissmann.