Emotional reunion for Ukrainian family in Calgary
With the war raging on in Ukraine, Oksana Konoplia was faced with a heartbreaking decision. She left her husband and separated her daughter from her dad Max to find safety in Canada,
“I like to be here right now. I feel safety,” Oksana said. “It was a hard six months without my husband and without parents, with low English. It was hard but this amazing family gave me so much opportunity to live in a normal space.”Oksana now has a job as a hairstylist and Dasha is enrolled at a southwest Calgary school. Oksana said her English has improved greatly since she arrived.
However, the joy of the reunion has been curtailed by devastation back home in their city of Kryvyi Rih. “I think it’s very scary for them because they don’t speak English and they’ve just lived in one house for their whole lives,” Oksana said. “I can’t do anything, it’s their decision.”Russia has been pounding the power grid in Ukraine with missiles and drones as part of efforts to leave Ukrainian civilians and soldiers in the dark and cold this winter. And now that he’s in Canada, Max worries for his sister who lives in Dnipro.
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