Salut din București! Greetings from Bucharest Romania where we've come to flee obviously the Russian invasion
in Ukraine and been here for about two weeks already and some people have asked me writing
messages asking what is the situation like here in Romania are Romanians being supportive of Ukrainians
who've come over as refugees or yeah what's going on basically on the ground so first thing
well they're friendly in general you see the Romanians here in Bucharest
So I'd read that many restaurants here in Bucharest are actually offering free
food to Ukrainians in light of having to come here as refugees with the war
in Ukraine with Russia's invasion so we're going to try out do a little bit of a food tasting tour
over the course of the day here in Bucharest and see how all that works so we're in our first place
you're gonna go through
When we came across the border near to Suceava in the north of Romania there were people
there aid organizations also at the train station in Suceava were there to help us with
finding our way to other parts of Romania also with essentials food, drinks if you needed them also
here in Bucharest just a little bit up the road actually from where I am now near to Piața Romană
there is a collection point if you want to donate hygiene products, food,
clothes to people who've come from Ukraine on the legal front if Ukrainians want to stay here longer
than their 90 days visa-free they can apply for residency so overall definitely been very
positive the reaction of Romanian people has overall to help
Ukrainians in this very tragic situation that has been unfolding over the last two weeks
Where did the idea come from to help Ukrainians? - Well it was a natural thing actually to happen
because people need us humans need humanity and this is what we do it's more than just restaurants
it's more than just food it's about helping the ones in need and we can actually connect
people with food and a warm meal especially in the conditions that they need it so much it brings a
bit of comfort it brings a bit of joy a bit of a smiling attitude so we're trying to just get
involved as much as possible and see from there did your restaurant the name of the restaurant is
Kaiamo in
Bucharest haven't given a big thumbs up it's a beautiful place did your restaurant have any
connection with Ukraine beforehand? - No, never never but we are from the same Eastern European region
so basically we feel connected to them and I really don't care if they're Russian or Ukrainian
or Czech or Polish people are people and we just need to help them because they need us
and we try to get involved and help them with food with some shelter with medicine with clothes and
luggage and everything that we can information the embassy is two minutes away so yeah I think
I started talking in Russian, Ukrainian, English and Romanian with all of them because it's
it's very difficult - Where are you from? - I'm from Ukraine Odesa - Odesa mama as we are also from Odesa
- So what can I say I'm very surprised how Romanian people not only Romanians
almost all Europeans people they help us always no they don't need even our money
just just help to us - So where are you from? - Originally I'm from Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine in Romania
there are a lot of opportunities for us for instance they give us
rent for free it's very strange for me but it is in the morning my wife said me that
war started and I how is it possible and what happened next we decided
I have some IT activities and we decided to go outside Ukraine because in
outside Ukraine I'm I do my best as IT specialist than sitting there and
fighting fighting by by muscles or by some some weapons