Katarina Reach (Instagram @katarinareach) was placed into an orphanage in Donetsk, Ukraine months after her birth in 1998 and was adopted by an American family in 2002.

She also goes by the name Kati or Katya. She located and connected with her birth family at age 21 in October of 2019. The redemption story unfolding of her and her birth mother’s reuniting is shared in her blog here and here on her Adoption Diaries below.