The problem is, I don’t know anything about Ukraine. I have money, and I can book an Airbnb in a neighboring country for them. But I suspect (apropos nothing) they’ll discover that there’s no way to leave the country through traditional means.
Does anyone know if the buses are still running? Can they get out of the country? If not, my fallback idea is to help them plan a way to escape on foot. But which part of the border should they try to cross?
What I really need is for someone local to Ukraine to DM me so that I can ask some basic questions. If you know anyone, please forward them:
I'll tweet updates there (and I'll post them here as edits for the next hour or so.)
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Updates:
- Someone DM'ed me on Telegram and mentioned that they're trying to do the same thing. They were thinking about evacuating them to Germany by "sending them an official invite, but the German embassy seems to be closed."
> If you know people who want to leave Kyiv, don't drive to Zhytomyr on the M06. Russian air assault will be taking cross roads. Go south to Bila Terskva to Berdichev to Vinnitsya to Kemenytsky. Fastest evac: go to Chernivsti crossing to Romania.
I am trying to help my programmer friend escape Ukraine, along with their elderly family: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30451497
The problem is, I don’t know anything about Ukraine. I have money, and I can book an Airbnb in a neighboring country for them. But I suspect (apropos nothing) they’ll discover that there’s no way to leave the country through traditional means.
Does anyone know if the buses are still running? Can they get out of the country? If not, my fallback idea is to help them plan a way to escape on foot. But which part of the border should they try to cross?
What I really need is for someone local to Ukraine to DM me so that I can ask some basic questions. If you know anyone, please forward them:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/theshawwn
Telegram https://t.me/theshawwn
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EDIT: Apparently other people want to do this too, so I made a twitter thread to pool our knowledge:
https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1496761074258952193
I'll tweet updates there (and I'll post them here as edits for the next hour or so.)
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Updates:
- Someone DM'ed me on Telegram and mentioned that they're trying to do the same thing. They were thinking about evacuating them to Germany by "sending them an official invite, but the German embassy seems to be closed."
- A twitter DM pointed out https://twitter.com/MalcolmNance/status/1496724041520095235:
> If you know people who want to leave Kyiv, don't drive to Zhytomyr on the M06. Russian air assault will be taking cross roads. Go south to Bila Terskva to Berdichev to Vinnitsya to Kemenytsky. Fastest evac: go to Chernivsti crossing to Romania.