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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Sarah Lansdown

Ukrainian family touched by kindness of Aussies as they start school

Viktoriia and Volodymyr Cherkach with children Oleksandr, who is going into year 1, and Bohdan, starting year 5, at St Bede's Primary School. Picture by James Croucher

Bohdan and Oleksandr Cherkach are excited to start at a new school wearing the colours of their homeland.

Shortly after the war in Ukraine broke out, they fled the country with their mother, Viktoriia, to stay with her aunt and uncle in Canberra.

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