Interesting! The Story Of A Ukrainian Refugee Finding A Safe Place From Tinder

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JAKARTA - More than 2.5 million people have left Ukraine after Russia's invasion since February 24. They head to neighboring countries such as Romania to seek refuge.

There is something interesting in this process. They asked for help using the Tinder app. This application is usually used for dating.

But not for the two refugees from Ukraine. Reporting from Engadget, The New York Times tells a very inspiring story, namely, Anastasia Tischchenko.

Anastasia Tischchenko and her friend Natalia Masechko posted their plight to a dating app as they left their home in Ivano-Frankivsk, a city of about 230,000 located in western Ukraine, south of Lviv.

This is done because they still believe there are still good people in the world and can help their suffering.

"I think there are a lot of honest people in the world, and some of them are on Tinder," Tischchenko told The Times quoted Sunday March 13.

Sure enough, there were people on Tinder who offered to help them. That person connected Tischchenko and Masechko with his friend. After communicating with his friend, the two of them finally found a place to take shelter. Namely a monastery that housed them while in Siret, a Romanian city on the southern border.

After a few days in Siret, Tischchenko went to Poland, while Masechko stayed in Romania to help the next wave of refugees.

Like the war itself, the refugee crisis has reached a tipping point in recent days. On Friday, March 11, officials in Poland's two largest cities, Warsaw and Krakow, said they were struggling to accommodate everyone who arrived after the conflict.

Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski warned "the situation is getting more difficult every day." The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has warned that as many as 4 million people could flee Ukraine because of the war.