Lengthening bureaucratic delays are leaving Ukrainians in Alaska without income or certainty about what comes next

Lengthening bureaucratic delays are leaving Ukrainians in Alaska without income or certainty about what comes next

Olena Dubchenko and her son Maksim, 4, in their Anchorage apartment before leaving to Seattle on March 27, 2026. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) One morning last month, Olena Dubchenko packed two suitcases for her and her four-year-old son, Maksim. Aside from clothes and toys, she included a few keepsakes: a swaddle, baby blanket and a worn-out fairytale book she brought from her war-torn hometown in Ukraine. Dubchenko was preparing to move o…