RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- The Triangle is home to a large Ukrainian population, including many refugees who came from Ukraine during the ongoing war. They've been following the US-Russia summit closely, and while they are disappointed in what they've seen, they're not giving up hope.

A world away from Chapel Hill, Nataliia Bondarenko was experiencing a much different world visiting Kyiv last month.

In the capital of her home country, there were signs that the war was still raging, such as people taking shelter from rockets in the metro.

"You have to spend a night, and you have to put your children between the trains and on the blanket, on the mattress, and this is how people have been surviving for more than three years now. Yeah, that was painful to me," she said.

But she said it was

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