We have our visas and we are leaving for Ukraine this evening! This is a very great news for us and I appreciate all of your prayers. There was actually a different official working at the window today and he let everything go through just fine. He even helped us improve what we were applying for (pointing out that we could ask for multi-entry visas that will allow us to leave the country during our 90 day stay without canceling the remaining part of our visa).
We will take a 9:00 PM train to the western Ukrainian city of Lviv and try to make a 30 minute connection for an express train to Kiev. Due to a very clumsy ticketing website and finally the discovery that the booking system will only accept Ukrainian credit cards, we were not able to get any of this process taken care of beforehand. But we'll do our best to quickly navigate the train station and the Ukrainian language and see if we can get back to Kiev around 1 PM. If not, we have a backup option that should get us there by evening.
Thanks again for hanging in there with us. It was nice to know we were not alone!
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