Last week, Ukrainian students at twelve American universities initiated mourning meetings. Students, professors, university staff and caring locals gathered to commemorate Ukrainians killed by Russian invaders. At the meetings, those who were not indifferent made short speeches, they played and sang Ukrainian songs, the sadness and pain of which was understandable to everyone without translation. Poems born of the war were read, which spoke of the tragedies of Bucha, Irpen, Mariupol and other cities most wounded by the Rashists. More than 150 people attended the meeting at Stanford and each of them could put a sunflower in the symbolic memorial of the dead.
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Funeral meetings were held at Stanford, Purdue, Tufts, Northeastern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as at the universities of Florida, Connecticut, Iowa, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Notre Dame, Dartmouth, Loyola at Chicago and Berklee College of Music..
Almost every Ukrainian student community, with the support of teachers, other students and cells of the Ukrainian diaspora, actively raised considerable funds to support Ukraine. The Stanford team alone sent 32 tons of drugs and medical supplies by plane..