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in a new facility. tomorrow those men and women of that will be cooking. the ukrainian people are fighters. they we re here for our people and we ll keep fighting this war in the only way we know, which is feeding people. we are food fighters. it s amazing that they are going back to continue the work. did you ever think look, you worked all over the world and you worked in ukraine now for a while since the beginning of this thing. did you ever think something like this could happen? that a restaurant you partner with would be hit? i mean, understanding the moment we came to ukraine, we knew that something like this could happen. i mean, we need to understand one thing. we have more than 400 restaurant partners all across the ukrainian operation. many of them are inside ukraine. we are in more than 80 cities. we are delivering food in more
restaurants and cooks we re working with. we have a small world central cooking team in ukraine. i m here, jose has been here. we re closely following the situation and making sure we re not putting ourselves in danger. we re moving to places that we know are as safe as possible, but there is an element of uncertainty. talking to our amazing ukranian partners, they re telling us, look, we re committed here. this is our way to fight, we are food fighters, we are cooking for the people and keeping our country going. at the end of the day, as long as they re still here in ukraine and as long as they are still working and cooking, world central kitchen is going to be there alongside them. so we might not have our international staff here, we might obviously try to work with our partners to make sure they re as safe as can be, make sure they re in the right places that they can cook in kitchens that are underground, that they have the right equipment. but, you know, the ukranian people are