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Today I spent the afternoon at “Cafe Ukraine,” a venue where Ukrainian refugees in Berlin can meet, relax and find new friends. The cafe was launched by Natalia Kovalenko, a former business employee trainer who fled war-ravaged Mariupol, and childhood friend Olena Nominas, an aircraft engineer who fled Zaporizhzhia, with the help of Berlin charity Berliner Stadtmission in order to create a community venue for Berlin's growing expatriate Ukrainian population. The cafe, located in unheated rooms of a former East German office building near Alexanderplatz, opens once a week and provides activities for children, a hot lunch of borscht, music and ice breaking opportunities for adults. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians fleeing the increasingly brutal Russian war in Ukraine have found refuge in Berlin. #gettyimages #gettyimagesnews #warinukraine #ukraine #ukrainiansinberlin #refugees #ukrainianrefugees #refugeeswelcome #photojournalism #hausderstatistik #cafeukraine #stadtmission #berlinerstadtmission