These Brazilians learn Ukrainian at school. Why?

Last week, Guto Pasko, a documentary filmmaker, invited relatives in Ukraine who are suffering from Russia’s invasion to seek shelter in his home.

The relatives are distant – both in the sense that Mr. Pasko lives more than 6,500 miles away in Brazil, and in that his great-grandparents were the last in his immediate family to have lived in Ukraine, emigrating in the late 1890s.

But Mr. Pasko isn’t the only Brazilian witnessing the attack on Ukraine from afar who is stepping up to help. With 600,000 citizens of Ukrainian descent, Brazil is