Explosions, no gas, visa trouble: How a Canadian-Ukrainian family escaped Kyiv as bombs fell

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Explosions, no gas, visa trouble: How a Canadian-Ukrainian family escaped Kyiv as bombs fell
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The first explosion came just before dawn. \u0027I’ll never get that out of my mind\u0027

He expected to be gone for months, but was prepared for forever. He had been skeptical of war, but had started the visa application for his Ukranian wife Iryna, seeking at least the option to flee to Canada.

Their plan was to head for Lviv, the large western Ukrainian city where their nanny would leave them. Speaking at a joint press conference in Warsaw with Polish President Andrzej Duda on Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declined to put a figure on how many refugees Canada would accept. But he announced spending of $117 million to expedite immigration applications to Canada by Ukrainian refugees.He said the application process is online so that it can be available to people who cannot reach embassies or consulates that remain open.

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