ICYMI: Having fled Russian occupation, Calgarian fears for family in Kherson yyc
The lightly armed group perished while trying to hold the strategic Antonovsky Bridge spanning the Dnipro River leading into the southern Ukrainian city, which was captured by Russian forces in the opening hours of the invasion in February.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“I’m trying to tell them to leave every day . . . it was one of the hardest decisions for me to leave because my parents weren’t going to,” said Haiduchenko, 23.But her parents, she said, don’t want to leave behind her grandparents, who live with disabilities and aren’t mobile. “We couldn’t drive to Kherson for the first month, there were a lot of military and civilian vehicles burned,” said Haiduchenko.FILE PHOTO: An old woman walks in the Kherson region village of Arkhanhelske on November 3, 2022, which was formerly occupied by Russian forces.But the couple eventually returned to the Russian-occupied city to check on their parents, grandparents and property.
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