Winnipeg woman counting on simplified immigration process to bring family from Ukraine
A Winnipeg woman has waited since the first day of Russia’s invasion into Ukraine to see her family find safety outside the war-torn country.
Anastasia Aslanova’s nieces, Zoe and Eva, aged 7 and 9, overnighting in a make-shift shelter in Kyiv.The youngest niece, frightened by the alarms, would ask her grandmother, “Can you hear how my heart is quickly beating? Can you touch it? Am I OK?” Aslanova said.The four attempted escaping sooner but turned back to avoid getting caught in traffic and running out of gas amid the hundreds of thousands trying to flee, queuing in their cars to the western border, she said.
“It was totally random people. They just were standing on the border, and they were asking like, ‘OK, do you need a place to stay? OK, come with us.'”