One of our favorite groups of librarians was in this library in the mid-sized city of Dnipro. The librarians at the Children's Library were incredibly welcoming and honored Ellen with a generous gift of many traditional Ukrainian dolls. The library sometimes hired refugees from the nearby ongoing conflict in Donbas in eastern Ukraine, to tutor patrons and assist librarians. When we visited, a bottlecap fundraising drive was being conducted at the library to provide prostheses for injured soldiers returning from that same war. The city of Dnipro has regularly been shelled and attacked by the Russian Army since their invasion of the rest of Ukraine in 2022.