Leon Bibb reports on how Clevelanders of all ethnic backgrounds are supporting Ukraine by visiting their site at the Cultural Gardens.
Ukraine is a world away yet it tugs at most of us with deep emotion, peppered with fear. In defiance to the Russian military onslaught ordered by Russia's autocratic leader, Ukraine stands firm, vowing to fight even with a hastily-called civilian force.
Thousands of miles away in the Northeast Ohio air, the Ukrainian flag waves.
As it is throughout the world, in Cleveland there is an emotional tie to the Ukrainian people and Ukrainian soil. The Ukrainian greenspace is one of 33 gardens of the world-renowned Cleveland Cultural Gardens. Each garden represents an ethnic community in Greater Cleveland. This unique set of gardens celebrates this city's ethnic diversity.
In the Glenville neighborhood on Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard and East Boulevard, from the East Shoreway to University Circle, the gardens, each with the flag of the country or ethnic group each represents, is a "United Nations" highlighting some of each group's history. In Ukraine's garden with the flowers left there are profound feelings about the country where trouble and death has been dropped at its doorstep.
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