MasterChef winner cooks for Ukraine
STORY: Ukrainian MasterChef winner and now judge Olga Martynovska has a message: "Eat borsch, save Ukraine".
We met her in Prague on Saturday (March 26) at a stand flying the Ukrainian flag at a popular farmer's market along the city's Vltava river, dishing up borsch and other traditional dishes.
"I'm a judge of MasterChef in Ukraine. I'm cook, I'm chef, so here I'm doing my job but it's not because I want to do it in front of the river here in Prague. It's because we are doing benevol, or charita (charity) in Czech. We collect the money in different way to buy the life necessary medicines for the Ukrainians who stay in hot points and really need it.”
Martynovska fled to Prague with her 6-year-old daughter to escape Russia's invasion.
She said she was fortunate to find safety with friends in the city.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, which Moscow called a "special operation", around 300,000 refugees have found refuge in Czech Republic.
Nearly 3.8 million people have fled Ukraine since the outbreak of war, most of them heading to Poland, according to the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR.
