Everett is home to the only refugee welcoming center in the entire state, and it has been extremely busy over the past year. Every Friday, immigrants and refugees, most of them fleeing the war in Ukraine, line up at the Carl Gipson Senior Center to get their basic needs met. Many arrive with little more than the clothes on their backs. The program is run by Refugee and Immigrant Services Northwest (RISNW). Yevgeniya Matsegora came to Washington with her mother and two children, leaving her husband behind to defend her homeland. "I miss home," she says, through a translator. "I want to go home. We had plans for the future and those plans ended on Feb. 24th." Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, sending 8 million people fleeing for safety. Over 16,000 of them have landed in Washington. READ THE FULL STORY HERE: https://www.king5.com/article/news/nation-world/ukraine/one-year-later-washington-welcoming-ukrainian-refugees/281-0d1a61b9-7439-47e5-9786-cab2dbcecfaa