Nearly a year after Russia invaded Ukraine unprovoked, Ukrainian refugees in Chicago are reflecting on their struggle and asking for ongoing support.
"We woke up at five in the morning," she recalled. "My husband woke me up and says, 'They're bombing us, so you have one hours.'"In that one hour she grabbed her son, one suitcase, and left on a seven day journey to America. Her husband stayed to fight in the army.Halia Didula knows the feeling. She spent the first six months of the war in her hometown of Lviv before coming to Chicago on a Fulbright Scholarship.
"I remember we took everyone into the basement and then again there was an explosion, and then four times again," Didula recalled "I remember we were just praying. Every time something was like this, we were just praying, because you don't know what to say. I'm scared? Everyone is scared." "It's just a feeling that every time you speak to them, you don't know whether you will be able to speak to them again," she said.
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