Disrupted by war

May 30, 2022 Ukrainian students join Waterloo to continue their studies through the Ukrainian Academic Internship program By Carol Truemner Faculty of Engineering Karina Sukhina woke up to the sound of the first bomb that landed on Kyiv at five a.m. February 24. While at first uncertain about what she'd heard, Sukhina and her boyfriend Nazarii Kulyk were soon packing their bags and heading for safety. "It was an awful time," she says. "I can't stop thinking about the morning Kyiv was bombed. We were so stressed for the next couple of weeks." Days later, the master's student in computer science at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and Kulyk, also a master's student studying at National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, fled Ukraine for Poland. A short time later, they both received offers to join the University of Waterloo's Ukrainian Academic Internship program this spring. Delighted at the prospect of continuing their education that had been disrupted by war, they arrived on campus with six other Ukrainian students in mid-May.