Work to settle Ukrainian refugees begins after plane arrives in Sask.

On Monday evening, 230 Ukrainian refugees stepped off a plane at the Regina airport and into their new lives in Canada.

The plane, which flew direct from Warsaw, Poland, carried people displaced from their homes during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

“It’s a really proud day,” said MLA Terry Dennis, the legislative secretary responsible for Saskatchewan-Ukraine relations, at the airport.

“It’s been a long time. We’ve had one or two [flights] redirected and it’s finally come to fruition.”

Over the next several days, all of the new arrivals will be directed to housing, language training and eventually employment services.

The Ukrainian Canadian Congress of Saskatchewan