Ukrainian IT entrepreneurs are defending the country with all means.
(Foto: Klawe Rzezcy, Getty Images, Imago)
Düsseldorf Yuriy Kaminosvkyy holds the call list on his smartphone up to the camera: it rings every minute. He currently receives around 1,000 calls a day. In almost all of them, people ask him for help. “I only eat once a day, sleep five hours – there’s just no time,” says the Ukrainian.
The 30-year-old is actually the managing director and co-founder of Lionwood, a Ukrainian software start-up. Now Kaminosvkyy coordinates the transport of relief supplies or the reception of refugees. The company’s open-plan office in the Ukrainian city of Lviv has beds for around 200 refugees. Many women and children find refuge there.
The city is only 70 kilometers away from the Polish border. So the Lionwood team set up a shuttle service. They drive the refugees to the border in cars. On the way back, they bring food, jackets or electric heaters for the refugees and soldiers – a feat of strength.
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