Mental health is another battlefront for Ukrainians in Russian war

Talking about the mental-health repercussions of the war and trauma it's caused is uncommon in Ukrainian culture, said Ukrainian-American Andrew Moroz, who founded a faith-based aid organization called the Renewal Initiative to serve Ukrainians. 

"They're not 'feelings' people," said Moroz, the pastor of a church in southwest Virginia who has made multiple trips to Ukraine to support people in the war-torn country where he was born. "They are 'get it done' people: 'Whatever the problem is — I don't care what the manual says — I'm going to figure this out.' And this goes back for centuries and centuries." 

This month — Mental Health Awareness month in the U.S. — Moroz traveled to Ukraine with a group of American therapists and pastors to conduct a mental health retreat and provide individual counseling for nearly 90 aid workers, community leaders, soldiers, and soldiers' wives. They visited the hard-hit Donbas region to meet soldiers from the front lines. 

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