People stand with their luggage as they wait to be relocated from the temporary shelter for refugees in a former shopping center between the Ukrainian border and the Polish city of Przemysl on March 8.Photo: LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP via Getty Images
A Massachusetts man is “proud” of his daughter after she and his grandson escaped fromUkraineamid Russia’s invasion into the country.
“We weren’t going to wait any longer for some mysterious solution to come from some government authority,” he told the outlet. “If it hadn’t happened in two weeks, the chances that it was going to happen in the next week or two weeks or three weeks were really slim.”
After contacting the state department, US lawmakers, and Ukrainian advocates for help, Hubbard realized they would need to takematters into their own handstoget out of the country.
“We got over the border,” Aislinn texted her father from a Slovakian village late on Saturday, according toThe Daily Beast. “And the police came to pick us up and everybody’s been so good to us.”
The family obtained temporary travel documents from Slovakian police which allowed them to travel throughout the European Union. They plan to have their son take a DNA test to receive full documentation.
Russia’sattack on Ukrainecontinues after their forces launched a large-scale invasion on Feb. 24 — the first major land conflict in Europe in decades.
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With NATO forces massing in the region around Ukraine, various countries have also pledged aid or military support to the resistance. Ukrainian PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyycalled for peace talks — so far unsuccessful — while urging his country to fight back.
Putin insists Ukraine has historic ties to Russia and he is acting in the best security interests of his country. Zelenskyy vowed not to bend.
“Nobody is going to break us, we’re strong, we’re Ukrainians,“he told the European Unionin a speech in the early days of the fighting, adding, “Life will win over death. And light will win over darkness.”
source: people.com
