ORLANDO, Fla. — A Central Florida company threatened after Russia invaded Ukraine has turned a negative into a positive.
The Russian Ballet Orlando said they’ve now raised more than $100,000 for aid relief in Ukraine.
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They were flooded with hateful phone calls and messages but decided to do something bigger than fight back.
The community came together, and they held an event at Osphere on Lake Eola last week.
The Russian Ballet Orlando is actually owned by a Ukrainian family.
They said they are not done raising money for the country, where they have many friends and family members.
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The ballet’s owners said they are just getting started and the community is behind them.
At Osphere one week ago, paintings and clothing were available for sale to help raise money to support the people of Ukraine.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine A displaced Ukrainian woman cries as she waits to get on a train to Poland, at the Lviv railway station, in Lviv, western Ukraine, Thursday, March 3, 2022. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has forced more than a million people to flee their homeland in just a week. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) (Bernat Armangue/AP) Russia's invasion of Ukraine Bogdan, 41, says goodbye to his wife Lena, 35, on a train to Lviv at the Kyiv station, Ukraine, Thursday, March 3. 2022. Bogdan is staying to fight while his family is leaving the country to seek refuge in a neighbouring country. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) (Emilio Morenatti/AP) Russia's invasion of Ukraine Kateryna Suharokova kisses her newborn son Makar in the basement of a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward and used as a bomb shelter in Mariupol, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. In makeshift shelters and underground railway platforms across Ukraine, families trying to protect the young and old and make conditions bearable amid the bullets, missiles and shells outside. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP) Russia's invasion of Ukraine A woman bids a man goodbye after boarding a Lviv bound train, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 3, 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's office says a second round of talks with Russia aimed at stopping the fighting that has sent more than 1 million people fleeing over Ukraine's borders, has begun in neighboring Belarus, but the two sides appeared to have little common ground. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) (VADIM GHIRDA/AP) Russia's invasion of Ukraine People leaving their relatives press their palms against a window of a Lviv-bound train, on the platform in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 3, 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's office says a second round of talks with Russia aimed at stopping the fighting that has sent more than 1 million people fleeing over Ukraine's borders, has begun in neighboring Belarus, but the two sides appeared to have little common ground. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) (VADIM GHIRDA/AP) Russia's invasion of Ukraine The children of medical workers warm themselves in a blanket as they wait for their relatives in a hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP) Russia's invasion of Ukraine Ukrainian women sit inside a van as artillery echoes nearby, as people flee Irpin on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 7, 2022. Russia announced yet another cease-fire and a handful of humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to flee Ukraine. Previous such measures have fallen apart and Moscow's armed forces continued to pummel some Ukrainian cities with rockets Monday. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) (Emilio Morenatti/AP) Russia's invasion of Ukraine Refugees, mostly women with children, rest inside a tent after arriving at the border crossing, in Medyka, Poland on Sunday, March 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu) (Visar Kryeziu/AP) Russia's invasion of Ukraine A firefighter holds the baby of a refugee fleeing the conflict from neighbouring Ukraine at the Romanian-Ukrainian border, in Siret, Romania, Monday, March 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru) (Andreea Alexandru/AP) Russia's invasion of Ukraine A woman holding a child cries after fleeing from the Ukraine and arriving at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, Monday, March 7, 2022. Russia announced yet another cease-fire and a handful of humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to flee Ukraine. Previous such measures have fallen apart and Moscow’s armed forces continued to pummel some Ukrainian cities with rockets Monday. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu) (Visar Kryeziu/AP) Russia's invasion of Ukraine People holding their children struggle to get on a train to Lviv at the Kyiv station, Ukraine, Monday, March 7, 2022. Russia announced yet another cease-fire and a handful of humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to flee Ukraine. Previous such measures have fallen apart and Moscow's armed forces continued to pummel some Ukrainian cities with rockets Monday. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) (Emilio Morenatti/AP) Russia's invasion of Ukraine Ukrainians crowd under a destroyed bridge as they try to flee crossing the Irpin river in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) (Felipe Dana/AP) Russia's invasion of Ukraine Ukrainian servicemen help an elderly woman, in the town of Irpin, Ukraine, Sunday, March 6, 2022. With the Kremlin's rhetoric growing fiercer and a reprieve from fighting dissolving, Russian troops continued to shell encircled cities and the number of Ukrainians forced from their country grew to over 1.4 million. (AP Photo/Andriy Dubchak) (Andriy Dubchak/AP) Russia's invasion of Ukraine Baby strollers and a wheelchair lined up, at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, Friday, March 4, 2022. More than 1 million people have fled Ukraine following Russia's invasion in the swiftest refugee exodus in this century, the United Nations said Thursday. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu) (Visar Kryeziu/AP) Russia's invasion of Ukraine The faces of refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine are illuminated by the light from a smartphone as they join a line approaching the border with Poland in Shehyni, Ukraine, Sunday, March 6, 2022. The number of Ukrainians forced from their country increased to 1.5 million and the Kremlin's rhetoric grew, with Russian President Vladimir Putin warning that Ukrainian statehood is in jeopardy. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole) (Daniel Cole/AP) Russia's invasion of Ukraine Children look out the window of an unheated Lviv bound train, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 3, 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's office says a second round of talks with Russia aimed at stopping the fighting that has sent more than 1 million people fleeing over Ukraine's borders, has begun in neighboring Belarus, but the two sides appeared to have little common ground. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) (VADIM GHIRDA/AP) Russia's invasion of Ukraine Ukrainian soldiers and militiamen carry a woman in a wheelchair as the artillery echoes nearby, while people flee Irpin on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 7, 2022. Russia announced yet another cease-fire and a handful of humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to flee Ukraine. Previous such measures have fallen apart and Moscow's armed forces continued to pummel some Ukrainian cities with rockets Monday. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) (Emilio Morenatti/AP) Russia's invasion of Ukraine Masha Fesenko, from Kyiv, arrives at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, Poland, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has set off the largest mass migration in Europe in decades, with more than 1.5 million people having crossed from Ukraine into neighboring countries. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu) (Visar Kryeziu/AP) Russia's invasion of Ukraine A child wrapped in a thermal blanket to keep warm boards a bus after fleeing from the Ukraine and arriving at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, Monday, March 7, 2022. Russia announced yet another cease-fire and a handful of humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to flee Ukraine. Previous such measures have fallen apart and Moscow’s armed forces continued to pummel some Ukrainian cities with rockets Monday. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu) (Visar Kryeziu/AP) Russia's invasion of Ukraine A woman kisses a child after fleeing from the Ukraine and arriving at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, Monday, March 7, 2022. Russia announced yet another cease-fire and a handful of humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to flee Ukraine. Previous such measures have fallen apart and Moscow’s armed forces continued to pummel some Ukrainian cities with rockets Monday. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu) (Visar Kryeziu/AP) Russia's invasion of Ukraine A young girl wears a robe as she walks through the back yard of a home hosted by the local Free Christian Church, for those fleeing Ukraine, in the village of Uszka, Hungary, Thursday, March 3, 2022. More than 1 million people have fled Ukraine following Russia's invasion in the swiftest refugee exodus in this century, the United Nations said Thursday. (AP Photo/Anna Szilagyi) (Anna Szilagyi/AP) Russia's invasion of Ukraine A Ukrainian police officer runs while holding a child as the artillery echoes nearby, while fleeing Irpin on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 7, 2022. Russia announced yet another cease-fire and a handful of humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to flee Ukraine. Previous such measures have fallen apart and Moscow's armed forces continued to pummel some Ukrainian cities with rockets Monday. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) (Emilio Morenatti/AP) Russia's invasion of Ukraine An elderly lady is assisted while crossing the Irpin river, under a bridge that was destroyed by a Russian airstrike, as civilians flee the town of Irpin, Ukraine, Saturday, March 5, 2022. What looked like a breakthrough cease-fire to evacuate residents from two cities in Ukraine quickly fell apart Saturday as Ukrainian officials said shelling had halted the work to remove civilians hours after Russia announced the deal. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) (VADIM GHIRDA/AP) Russia's invasion of Ukraine A man is helped in a wheelbarrow after crossing on an improvised path under a bridge that was destroyed by a Russian airstrike, as people flee the town of Irpin, Ukraine, Saturday, March 5, 2022. What looked like a breakthrough cease-fire to evacuate residents from two cities in Ukraine quickly fell apart Saturday as Ukrainian officials said shelling had halted the work to remove civilians hours after Russia announced the deal. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) (VADIM GHIRDA/AP) Russia's invasion of Ukraine A man carries a woman as they cross an improvised path while fleeing the town of Irpin, Ukraine, Sunday, March 6, 2022. In Irpin, near Kyiv, a sea of people on foot and even in wheelbarrows trudged over the remains of a destroyed bridge to cross a river and leave the city. (AP Photo/Oleksandr Ratushniak) (Oleksandr Ratushniak/AP) “We raised $12,000,” said Katerina Fedotova, the president and artistic director at the Russian Ballet Orlando.
The money raised will go the New Life charity in Ukraine, a church that is helping people there in need.
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Fedotova said they are in contact with the church every few days.
“They are helping thousands of people,” Fedotova said. “Two weeks ago, they helped over 3,000 people immigrate out of Ukraine, this week I believe they helped almost 3,800 people.”
Fedotova said they have more charity events planned in Orlando to benefit Ukraine.
More information on their work to help support the people of Ukraine can be found here .
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