{"id":51813,"date":"2022-12-15T16:05:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T16:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/?p=51813"},"modified":"2022-12-15T16:05:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T16:05:21","slug":"the-ukrainians-who-made-london-their-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/the-ukrainians-who-made-london-their-home\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ukrainians who made London their home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Earlier this year, in February, a chain of events turned the life of around 40 million people, perhaps more, upside down. What has changed?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February. The conflict has been going on for months with no clear winner yet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The losers, however, are the people, especially Ukrainians. But thanks to their optimism and spirit, they managed to turn a loss into a win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, I spoke with Liza, a former English teacher from Kyiv who&#8217;s been living in London for seven months. She dives deep into the moving process, the situation in her home country, and her plans for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ukrainians in London by Istv\u00e1n Botond B\u00e9res\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1403377750&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Interview &amp; editing: Istvan Botond Beres<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Words: Istvan Botond Beres|Subbing: Aleksandra Martynow<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, in February, a chain of events turned the life of around 40 million people, perhaps more, upside down. What has changed? Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February. The conflict has been going&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":51814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,99,100,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-podcast","category-podcasts","category-top-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51813"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51821,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51813\/revisions\/51821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}