North Carolina House Speaker Spends Vacation In Ukraine
North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore spent his vacation in a place you wouldn’t expect — the Ukraine war zone. Moore’s visit to the war-torn country was kept secret until…
North Carolina House Speaker Spends Vacation In Ukraine
Chris McGrath/Getty ImagesNorth Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore spent his vacation in a place you wouldn't expect -- the Ukraine war zone.
Moore's visit to the war-torn country was kept secret until he was back on friendly soil. His trip, which he says was self-funded, was revealed publicly on Facebook over the weekend.
"Over the Easter recess, I accepted an invitation from Save Our Allies (affiliated with The Independence Fund) to see their efforts to coordinate delivery of humanitarian relief in this war town (sic) nation.
I also met with workers from Samaritan's Purse, a Christian organization based in Boone that is helping to provide shelter and other resources to Ukrainians displaced by the war."
Russia and Ukraine have been in a tense relationship since 2014, when Russian president Vladimir Putin annexed the Crimea region. Russia launched a full-on invasion of Ukraine in February of last year.
The war in Ukraine has had wide-ranging consequences, including tens of thousands of deaths. The war has also displaced thousands of civilians resulting in a humanitarian crisis.
Moore said he was impressed with the resilience of the Ukrainian people. "I met with people who would leave their everyday jobs to go fight on the front then return home a few days to work their normal job and do that over and over,” Moore told the Associated Press.
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