‘Pinching myself’: Vancouver bakery owner reunited with sister from Ukraine
Rozlach said she and her husband had to call everyone they knew to scrape together enough gasoline to make the perilous 20 hour journey to western Ukraine.Karpenko had to convince her sister to leave the country from there — a decision that was not made lightly.
Rozlach’s husband, who cannot legally leave Ukraine because he is a man of fighting age, remained behind to work for a charity organization, while her parents stayed behind out of concern for other relatives.While deciding to leave was hard, any hesitation melted away when she landed in Canada on Monday.“I’m very happy because we are safe now. It is the main reason we came here, to be safe — me and my child. My main goal was to rescue my child. I’m very grateful.
“Because our relatives who live in Chernobyl area, we don’t have a connection with them from the fifth of March, so we don’t even know are they still alive. We hope, it’s very scary.”
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