Student with rare limb disorder volunteers to help others
By Emily Gibson
Section Editor
On the morning of May 12, Irina Yeakley stood before an officer at the Ukrainian border, where she was questioned about her Russian ethnicity and suspected of possibly hiding something.
Irina Yeakley. (Photo courtesy of Irina Yeakley
“The officer was staring into my soul as if she were trying to see if I was a spy or knew the Russian language, so I tried not to freak out and acted as casual and normal as possible," said Irina “She (the officer) was not happy, but she let me through.”
Irina let out a sigh of relief as her van, one of the six carrying humanitarian aid, passed over safely into war-stricken Lviv, Ukraine.
The Russian-born but American-raised 21-year-old Trevecca student was in Europe during the Russo-Ukrainian war af...