From a cellar to Salem, Ukrainian refugee family finds a new home

After fleeing their hometown in Ukraine at the start of the war, Kseniia, Serhii and Ahnieta Hnatovska have found peace and a new life in Salem (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)

Kseniia Hnatovska ate Oregon cherries as her 2-year-old daughter Ahnieta played, laughing and running through the kitchen.

Toys for Ahnieta line the yard, and the family likes to take their daughter to neighboring Englewood Park.

The 33-year-old is settling into her northeast Salem home, where she, her husband Serhii, 47, and her mother Larysa Martyniuk, 57, have lived for six months after fleeing the war in Ukraine. 

The calm of their daily family life now…

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