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    In Ukraine’s Lviv, help — and maybe hope — for the legions displaced by war

    LVIV, Ukraine — She ladled out one serving after another from a steaming cauldron, savoring how patrons relished the comfort-in-a-bowl elixir, all free of charge. Vladyslava Ladysheva, 64, a great-grandmother in a quilted coat, was serving chicken soup at a food stand outside the main train station in Lviv, a city in western Ukraine. “I get a lot of satisfaction being here,” Ladysheva said ...
    by Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times Mar 24, 2022 5 minutes
    A man comforts his wife in Lviv, Ukraine, before she boards a train to Przemysl, Poland on March 19, 2022.

    LVIV, Ukraine — She ladled out one serving after another from a steaming cauldron, savoring how patrons relished the comfort-in-a-bowl elixir, all free of charge.

    Vladyslava Ladysheva, 64, a great-grandmother in a quilted coat, was serving chicken soup at a food stand outside the main train station in Lviv, a city in western Ukraine.

    “I get a lot of satisfaction being here,” Ladysheva said this week. “People feel safe and are taken care of.... Easter is coming and we want this to be over soon.”

    She is among the army of volunteers mobilized to aid the many displaced by war descending on this city. Lviv is a both a way station for Ukrainians headed abroad, and a haven for the legions who hope to remain in their homeland but fled fighting in their

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