'All of the plans that we had planned for, all of the desires that we had, changed overnight,' Kateryna Shvartsman said of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Friday marks one year since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. As families are fighting to reunite with one another, one family was finally brought together in Chicago after months of pain and anguish.
Kateryna and her brother Vladyslav Shenhella separated when the war in Ukraine broke out. Kateryna, her son, and Darina were all together in Mariupol, sheltering in a basement just before it collapsed under Russian shelling. In a nearby hospital, Kateryna's and Vlad's mother was recovering from COVID-19. They found out later she died when that hospital was bombed, and they knew they had to abandon their home.The group was split. Kataeryna and her son made it to the U.S., to Chicago; Darina and Vlad made it to Poland.
Now, almost a year later, how does it feel now that they're able to be in each other's presence on the other side of this nightmare?
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