Ukrainian Community in Canada Hopeful but on Edge as Tensions Escalate With Russia

Members of the Saskatoon chapter of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress of Saskatchewan holds a rally outside Saskatoon City Hall in a Feb. 6, 2002 handout photo. The Canadian Press/HO-Ukrainian Canadian Congress of Saskatchewan

Iryna Matsiuk checks the news as soon as she wakes up each morning, hoping the escalating Russian-Ukrainian crisis won’t put her family in harm’s way.

Matsiuk, who has been living in Saskatoon since 2011, has a sister living in the capital city of Kyiv and her mother and grandmother live in the northwestern area of Volyn.