Ukrainian cooking video game winner Olga Martinovska, who fled the country with her six-year-old daughter to escape the Russian invasion and sought refuge in the Czech Republic, today cooked borscht soup and other traditional dishes to raise money there. trapped in Ukraine.
Behind a counter with the Ukrainian flag, in a popular market for agricultural products along the Vltava River, which is no other than the so-called Vltava River in the Czech Republic, Martinowska and other Ukrainian refugees served delicacies, and poppy seeds cake, pierogi (STS: a dish of Slavic cuisine, consisting of fried, stuffed semicircular pieces of foil) and handmade sweets.
“I’m doing my job, but it ‘s not just that I want to do it here, across the river in Prague,” said Martinowska, who was standing next to a sign reading “Eat Bors, Save Ukraine.”
“We are raising money in a different way to buy the … necessary medicines for Ukrainians who remain in hot spots and really need them,” he said.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, some 300,000 refugees have fled to the Czech Republic and joined the pre-war Ukrainian community of nearly 200,000.
Nearly 3.8 million people have fled Ukraine since the start of the war, most on their way to Poland, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
Martinowska, who has also been a referee in the game since her victory, said she was lucky to find safety in her friends in Prague and wants to help those left behind in Ukraine.
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