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Mom escapes Ukraine Now safe with daughter in Bruderheim, Liudmyla Volovyk
survived in a bomb shelter under a school until it was safe to escape pet and a suitcase and stuff for them 200 people and there are 600 people in can’t just lay down. You have literally BY JANA SEMENIUK it. People stand all the way for eight no space and every free inch is filled,” Bruderheim resident Olga and try to get on the train? “The train, on a regular basis, takes hours and not even be able to sit. You she said. Renneberg was thrilled to see her While Volovyk had mother last week, after barely slept over the past the 56-year-old woman couple of weeks, was able to escape Renneberg said resting Ukraine and come to now was the last thing her Canada. mother wanted to do after Renneberg met her her first restful night at mother at the airport in a Renneberg’s home. tearful reunion captured “She woke up early by local news media outand started cleaning right lets. away. She was exhausted “It is a huge relief,” but she always needs to Renneberg said during a move. She needs to do later interview with the something instead of lisLamont Leader. tening to the news and “I’m glad she is here worrying about her and I’m glad she is safe.” friends and family,” she Renneberg’s mother, said. Liudmyla Volovyk, was “Right now, her friend in a bomb shelter under a and her godson, they are school in Kyiv for two still in Kyiv and live close weeks before escaping to the place where this Ukraine. She carried only morning a missile fell. a backpack and managed Her godson is 14.” to get on a train that took Although the two are her to the city of Lviv. adjusting to the new Volovyk crossed the borarrangements, Renneberg der in Poland where she said her mother does not secured a plane ticket and want to stay permanently. landed in Edmonton “She can definitely March 7. stay with us as long as she Renneberg said later needs, but she wants to go that her mother was lucky home eventually and she to escape. will do that when it’s “My mom got away safe,” she said. “So far her easy because she was home is ok as much as I alone. She didn’t have know.” kids or elderly people she Meanwhile Olga and needed to take care of. her husband’s children “She just had herself. But can you imagine hav- Bruderheim resident Olga Renneberg kisses her mother upon greeting her at an Edmonton airport March 7. are enjoying time with grandma. ing at least one kid or a Renneberg's mother escaped Ukraine after the Russian invasion. Global news screenshot