Serhii Kukushkin is the Field Director of UCAF. He and his wife Olga along with their four children now live in Birmingham, AL. They were on vacation in Germany when the Russian invasion took place in February of 2022 and were not permitted to return to Kherson given Russia’s occupation of that territory. Prior to emigrating to the United States, he was a pastor in Kherson and devoted much of his time caring for families living in poverty throughout that region.

He met Jeff Ring while serving as his translator during Jeff’s first visit to Ukraine as a guest lecturer in the universities. His primary responsibility is building relationships with trustworthy partners in various regions in Ukraine in order to help identify children who are in clear need of humanitarian assistance and then ensuring that donor investments assist the children for whom they were intended.