JustCoded offices used as Kharkiv shelter amid Russian attack
The Kharkiv headquarters of fintech software company JustCoded were used as a shelter for more than 50 people last week, while Russian forces attacked Ukraine’s second largest city.
JustCoded staff have now begun the process of relocating to Lviv in the West of the country, where the company has established a satellite office.
Despite the ongoing instability in the country, JustCoded’s chief executive and co-founder Konstantin Boyko told Peer2Peer Finance News that it was ‘business as usual’ for the software provider – which works with a number of peer-to-peer lending platforms in the UK, the US, Europe and the Middle East.
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“Since last Thursday we’ve been doing everything we could do to keep ‘business as usual’ mode for the customers,” Boyko said.
“Frankly speaking, many of them were genuinely surprised when our team appeared on some regular calls ready to discuss the work.
“For the whole week, our office in Kharkiv has served as a shelter to many of our employees, their friends and families – that’s a brand new office which we built three years ago. Now we know that the effort and money we invested in it were served a purpose that you can’t put a price on – it literally became the second home for more than 50 people for a week.”
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Boyko added that as of this morning (3 March), a large group of JustCoded’s team members and their families have begun the journey to Lviv where the business will temporarily be based. He praised the team’s resilience and said that he hopes the most difficult part of the war has now passed.
“Russia has no chance against highly motivated Ukrainian people and so far it looks like the only thing they can do is bomb peaceful cities using different missiles and weapons – which has no excuse,” added Boyko.
“I have no doubt we will finally win, but we don’t know what price we will have to pay for it.”
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