There have been many sleepless nights for one Montgomery woman who has relatives living in Ukraine.
Kusznir translated her cousin’s message as “We hear sirens all night.”Natalka went on to explain that 30 bombs were being targeted in their direction, but only eight made it. Twenty-two of the missiles were intercepted.
She said her father spent much of World War II as an older teen, escaping from the German army, who tried to draft him. He ultimately ended up in a displaced persons camp. Kusznir said her family came to the United States in 1949, after several long years on the run or in camps. “The people who die, it will be in the thousands. The people who are going to be tortured, thousands. Those that are going to survive this are going to have every liberty of theirs deprived,” she said.