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When Karolina Attspodina moved from Ukraine to Ireland as a nine-year-old in 1999 with her mother, it would have been impossible to foresee the course of her life — and how it would lead her back to her home country under dire circumstances.

She lived in south Dublin as a teenager — her first job was at TGI Fridays in Blackrock — but returned to Ukraine to study as her non-citizen status made university in Ireland prohibitively costly. An Obama Foundation leader representing Ireland for 2024-25, Attspodina is fresh off the multimillion-euro sale of a 45 per cent stake in WeDoSolar, the portable solar energy company she set up four years ago in Berlin.

Now she has a new, urgent mission: to arm Ukraine with

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