“As long as people unite, there is hope”: Yale community marks three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion

Members of the Yale community gathered at the Women’s Table on Monday to commemorate three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The ceremony featured speeches from Ukrainian students and lector Olha Tytarenko — who heads the Ukrainian Program at Yale — and a prayer led by University Chaplain Maytal Saltiel. 

Saltiel spoke of the “heartbreak and fear” that these past three years have brought and prayed that next year attendees will not have to gather again for a vigil. She recited a prayer written by 19th-century Ukrainian rabbi Nathan Sternhartz.

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