He and Kozub stayed at Father Pawlus’ home parish of St. “I’m proud to be Polish right now,” he said. Instead, Father Pawlus said the refugees have been welcomed and supported by both the Polish people and the Polish government. The refugees are scared, he said, and some said Russian reports warned them that their children would be taken from them if they crossed into Poland. “We hope it will be a signal that people care about them,” Kozub said. While in Poland, he and Father Pawlus also visited Kozub’s V-One Vodka distillery in Kamien, about 100 miles from the Ukrainian border. “It was shocking and moving when we heard the stories of civilians being bombed,” Kozub said in an interview March 10 from Poland, after three straight days of distributing the aid.Ī lifelong Catholic of Polish ancestry, he had arrived there with $5,000 to donate to the relief efforts and pledged to donate $1 to refugee assistance from each bottle of V-One Vodka sold during the month of March. He traveled there with Father Piotr Pawlus, pastor of Most Holy Redeemer Parish in Hadley the priest has plans to go again in late June to help the refugees.ĭuring their March trip, Kozub and Father Pawlus spent several days providing money, food, water, clothes and other items to women and children who had fled their home country as Russian forces continued to attack military, commercial and residential areas. “I feel it’s the least I can do,” Paul Kozub, founder of Hadley-based Valley Vodka Inc., told iObserve, the online news outlet of the Springfield Diocese, in early March as he got ready to go to Poland.
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