Russia's aggression against Ukraine is particularly alarming for people in the United States who have friends or family in the country.
is particularly alarming for people in the United States who have friends or family in the country. One of them is Anya Hapotchenko, an exchange student whose parents live in eastern Ukraine, not far from the border with Russia.
"It was 5 a.m. in the morning, Moscow time and Ukrainian time as well," she told CBS News national correspondent Jericka Duncan. Hapotchenko said her parents' home is roughly 60 miles from the Russian border, in the city of Starobilsk. They told her they had not heard any gunfire yet and were planning to leave Thursday, she said.
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