Ukrainians in the Bay Area are calling on the whole community to unite and send a message to Russia, that war must be stopped.
Watching the horrifying events unfold from afar is very difficult for Yulia Bezvershenko who previously worked in Ukraine's Education Ministry and is now a visiting scholar at Stanford University.
"When you are outside you always feel the guilt that you are not together with the people you love and you can't help them to fight," Bezvershenko told KCBS Radio. "Otherwise, it's a good moment to help unite abroad."
She has been helping organize protests in the Bay Area and calling on everyone to get involved, even if they do not have direct ties to the community.
"It is not only killing peaceful people in Ukraine it's about total disaster in Europe and it also will affect all of the world," she said.
She knows people who are prepared to fight, she added that it is difficult to be away from loved ones while all of this is going on but she is doing what she can to rally the community in the Bay Area.
"It's anxiety it's fear, but it's also anger and it's also the feeling that we all have to unite all the world have to unite in order to stop this," she explained.
Although, she is unsure it will be enough to stop President Vladimir Putin.
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