Sixteen-year-old Sofia Zagrebelskaa is one of the refugees living on the Malaspina ferry. She's glad to be away from the fighting. 'I’m very happy that I don’t listen to the sound of bombs,” she said. “And I sleep in a bed … not on the floor.”
Zakharchenko and three other refugees are working to turn the Malaspina into a museum and maritime training center and housing for the cruise terminal’s seasonal employees.“Before, it looked like nobody had lived for three years here,” he said. “It was looking not so bad, but we needed to organize everything. It was dirty, too much dust, fuel. Not-so-fresh air inside. We’re cleaning. We removed everything. Some lights were not working.
Zakharchenko came to Ketchikan from the southern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. He says the city had grown tense since Russia’s annexation of nearby Crimea in 2014. Then, this spring, tanks and troops started pouring over Ukraine’s borders with Russia and Belarus. He knew it wouldn’t be long before the fighting arrived at his doorstep.
For two weeks, he was left to wonder whether his parents were alive or dead as his hometown crumbled under relentless Russian artillery fire. Then he got a call. Meanwhile, Zakharchenko and Yelyzaveta Kovryha, his high school sweetheart and partner of 13 years, made their way to Anchorage through the . The program allows Ukrainian refugees to stay in America for up to two years if they have a sponsor. That’s when longtime Alaska tourism businessman John Binkley says he got a call from his son, who was working with volunteers in Anchorage to find places to resettle refugees fleeing the war.
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