On Monday evening, 230 displaced Ukrainian 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.”

The enormous Boeing 787 was piloted by the plane’s owner, founder of the NGO Solidaire, Argentinian philanthropist and pilot Enrique Pineyro.

Over the next several days, all of the