A Chicago woman plans to travel to her home country of Ukraine, within days of getting married this weekend
Newlyweds Maria and David during their ceremony at a home, Saturday, March 5, 2022, in Oak Park, Ill. Maria, whom is from Ukraine, is headed back there to volunteer, a few days after she was married. invaded her home country of Ukraine
“People are running out of there and she is running in,” said a friend at the wedding, Pamela Chinchilla of Lombard. Since the war began, she used messages and calls through Facebook to keep in touch with her parents, who have been sheltering in a parking garage during attacks on Ukraine’s largest port city of Odesa. But she said she has been unable to reach cousins in Kyiv in recent days.
“Because complacency and compliance are pretty much the same thing,” he said. “And you can only turn a blind eye to people being bullied for so long. And if it happens to them, it might be you next.”Ukraine’s forces are outnumbered and outgunned, but their resistance did prevent a swift Russian victory. Ukrainian leaders called on citizens to join in guerrilla war this week as Russian forces gained ground on the coast and took over one major port city.
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