Veronika Didusenko explained how she escaped Ukraine with her 7-year-old son, Alex, after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the invasion on Feb. 24.
"I remember he spoke about how they noticed many soldiers on the border of Ukraine and that they would invade," Didusenko explained."Putin had pretty much set the date. After I heard that speech, I really started to get worried about the safety of our country, of my family, and all of those in Ukraine. I would check the news all the time. That's why I had my suitcase ready. Just in case.
"All that mattered to me was saving my son’s life," she said."I just took my stuff and left quickly. At that moment, you don’t care about anything else. You’re just thinking of finding safety, a place where there are no rockets, bombs or sirens. It’s the only thing you can think of to try to save your life."
"I wanted to speak about the war, about the devastation in Ukraine that I witnessed with my eyes," she said."I wanted people to understand what was going on. I have a U.S. visa, but my son doesn’t have one. I went to the United States embassy in Luxembourg to apply for a visa for him. But he was denied. The embassy did not issue a visa for my son. I was so shocked. They said to me, ‘You can leave your son in Europe with your friends and go to the U.S.
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