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Just final week, her mom, 58, and grandmother, 82, who was recovering from main surgical procedure after a damaged again, slept on the ground in Dublin Airport’s outdated terminal as they waited to be taken to be processed at Citywest resort and transit centre after an already gruelling journey.

Maya, 27, mentioned that her grandmother was indignant she was made to depart her homeland and mentioned that she would like to have died in a bomb assault at residence than face the arduous journey and bodily and emotional wrenches of transferring to a overseas nation, leaving all she cherished behind.

“But my mother loves Ireland. She thinks Ireland is the kindest country in the world,” Maya mentioned.

“They arrived on Wednesday evening into Dublin Airport. There was no place in Citywest [hotel where they were to go to be processed] so that they had to return to the airport. In the outdated terminal, there have been workplace rooms. Some folks slept on chairs, some on tables, some on the ground.

“Some folks have been there for days however I collected them the subsequent day from Citywest. I believe they made it quicker for them as a result of my grandmother was so outdated and she or he not too long ago had an operation on her again so it was laborious for her to sit.”

Maya’s story

Maya comes from Kharkiv, a metropolis of 1.4 million folks in northeast Ukraine. While her residence has survived, a lot of the metropolis centre is destroyed and there have been Russian troopers on the road. She says her household was afraid and had no alternative however to depart.

The three ladies now stay in Dublin City University’s Larkfield pupil lodging. Their preliminary deadline to depart of August 6 has been prolonged to August 22 to give the refugees somewhat extra time to discover one other residence throughout a housing disaster.

Maya has been supplied work instructing in a ballet college in Dublin in September so hopes that she will be able to stay inside commuting distance of that. “I’m scared they are going to say ‘we’ll deliver you to Galway.’ They’re making an attempt to do their finest however what can they do?”

Regardless of where they go, Maya is thankful that they are now safe unlike other members of her family. Her other grandmother is trapped behind enemy lines near Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, and her father is now an army officer in Kharkiv.

“My father’s getting grey hairs, more by more each day.

“His mother is in a place near Donetsk now under Russian occupation. 

There’s no electrical energy, and costs for all the pieces are very excessive. She has water and a few issues to cook dinner on – wooden from the streets and tablets for the camp-cooker.

“The banks are not working, Russia has bombed everything, so I can’t send money to her. My father is thinking how he can pick her up from that horrible place but it’s very difficult. He’s so upset, he’s getting older every day.

“My father’s flat is also saved. But when there was bombing in his district it was so close it broke his window.” 

The Moscow Royal Ballet

Maya arrived in Ireland the day earlier than Russia invaded her nation on February 24. As she watched the horror unfold from Ireland, her Russian colleagues in the ballet firm believed Putin’s propaganda, calling him ‘Ukraine’s nice saviour’ and telling Maya that her nation had to be saved from genocidal fascists.

“I came here on a ballet contract for a two-week tour of Ireland with the Moscow Royal Ballet. The shows were sold out. But the first performance was on February 24. Just three dancers were Ukrainian and the manager.

“At that first performance, an old man and woman stood up with a banner saying ‘Putin, get your hands off Ukraine.’ I cried on the stage. That support meant so much. They didn’t even know we were Ukrainian.

In the dressing room after one of many women got here up and mentioned ‘because of your stupid Ukraine, Irish people are going to kill us here’.

“Most have been Russian in that firm. It was laborious to work with these folks after February 24.

“The propaganda impacts a lot of the conflict. So many individuals I danced with who’re dancing proper now in Russia consider it. They have been our Soviet brothers. Now they are going to kill us in the streets.”

Maya’s life in Ireland

The concerts were cancelled and the dancers were offered flights to wherever they wanted. Maya had nowhere to go so stayed in Ireland. For three months, she lived in a hotel. 

Things have started to improve now since she moved to the student flat in DCU and began volunteering with Ukraine Action, teaching dance and gymnastics to children and adults at the Ukraine Centre by Vicar St in Dublin.

“I’m instructing youngsters age 4 or 5 years outdated and they’re superb. I’m instructing them good stretches and gymnastics. I train Ok-Pop dance to youngsters. And adults, 18+ ladies actually love modern dance. 

“They feel really happy to spend time with me. When you dance you put all your soul into it. I hope they’re thinking only about the dance, not about the war, and that makes me happy.” 

On her arrival, Maya’s English was slow and stilted, she said. But she took language classes with a “wonderful” Italian woman called Rose at Travelling Languages in Dublin and her speech is now fluid and confident.

She is hugely grateful to everyone who has helped her survive alone in a foreign country at a horribly traumatic time.

Maya’s future

“I can’t calculate the longer term. We’ll by no means know till the top. But once I see new tanks, airplanes in my nation I see the information look a bit higher.

“A lot of people have died under bombs in my city. But Russia is not moving in more.

“In 2014, I worked in the Donetsk Ballet Theatre. It was the coolest theatre in Ukraine. The first bomb fell near my flat. I saw how people kill other people on the street. I saw Russians put on Ukrainian soldiers’ uniforms to kill people. There was propaganda everywhere.

“So when this war started I called my family, I told them to stay calm, prepare stuff and go underground.”

Maya said that although she is nervous about where she may be moved next month, she is grateful that her family are alive and her mother and grandmother are now with her.

“After this horrible invasion I don’t care where I live I only care about my mother and grandmother,” she mentioned.

A spokesperson from the Ukraine Civil Society Forum said that thousands of Ukrainian refugees; women, children and vulnerable people are facing uncertainty in the next few weeks about where they are going to live, as student accommodation comes to an end.

“We need a cross-government department response to this impending crisis. We are calling on the DoH and other government departments, with the support of an implementing body such as the Housing Agency, to lead on medium- and long-term housing,” they mentioned.

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