Mother Jones: The Awe-Inspiring Ukrainian Evacuation Effort That Started With a Group Chat

Mother Jones: The Awe-Inspiring Ukrainian Evacuation Effort That Started With a Group Chat. “A native of Melitopol, a city of around 150,000 on the flat farm fields of southern Ukraine, Alexander Lyubishko looks like the long-haul truck driver he once was—bearded, constantly in a baseball cap, and stocky. He founded the group chat on messaging app Viber that helps refugees leave Russian occupation in Melitopol, and his story reveals just how much Ukrainians have achieved over one year of this unexpected war — and how some of them have been changed in the process.”