Homeless man takes up residence in Ukrainian airport
Kyiv’s Boryspil airport trying to help 51-year-old Ukrainian man who has lived there since 2014
A Ukrainian who spent 20 years in the United States has been found living in a makeshift shelter in Kyiv’s international airport.
Andrii Usik said he discovered his flat in Ukraine had been stolen when he came back to his homeland to bury his mother.
“I came to terminal B in 2008 and immediately contacted tht local government authorities about my arrival to Ukraine. And since then I started to experience difficulties, I started feeling like I was a second class citizen in this country and it became very hard to make living,” Usik told Reuters.
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The 51-year old man said after his mother’s funeral he left for Poland where he worked as a field engineer and received a Polish residential card.
But after his contract expired, he was unable to find a new job, and was — in his view — illegally deported to Ukraine in October 2013.