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Gary Wasserson serves on the board of Ukrainian Children, a nonprofit that supports Ukrainian families in need by sponsoring resettled refugees, empowering women through job training, providing medical aid for wounded and sick Ukrainians, and establishing summer camps for refugee children in Warsaw.

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Ukrainians in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, on Feb. 26, 2023

Opinion: Pennsylvania's Ukrainian community could swing the state in the upcoming election

by Gary Wasserson
I am one of more than 120,000 Pennsylvanians of Ukrainian heritage who will vote on which presidential candidate best serves our interests. Since only 80,000 votes separated the presidential candidates in 2020, our community's vote could be key to deciding who wins Pennsylvania's 19 electoral votes in November: Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. I have a personal stake in Russia’s unprovoked war against Ukraine. Just days after the full-scale invasion began, I discovered I had five distant relative