son after they were "awaked by sirens and explosions" as Russia launched an attack. Veronika Didusenko made a desperate getaway with her seven-year-old son as Vladimir Putin began his reign of terror while they were in the country's capital of Kyiv.
The 2018 beauty queen said she decided to drive towards Ukraine's western border, which saw traffic jams mount as civilians tried to flee the country on February 24. “In between raids, we — along with tens of thousands of families —[ we] tried to get out of the city,” she said at a news conference in Los Angeles.“Directly above my head, dozens of helicopters with their troops were bombing … As I was fleeing with my young son, I could see there was a real air battle above our head,” she recalled at the meeting with women’s rights lawyer Gloria Allred.The mum said there was “no place where sirens did not sound, where rockets with bombs did not explode" as they headed to the border, reports New York Post.“It was horrible, so many children and mothers just trying to get to the border.
What is more violent at the moment, the Russian militaries sometimes stopped and shot innocent people trying to escape,” she added.Didusenko and her son successfully reached Luxembourg followed by Geneva, Switzerland, where they were staying with family.
Her mother and grandparents remain in the war-torn capital at this time.She fears that Putin will continue the invasion until he pulls off the “eradication of everything Ukrainian and Ukraine itself” and says residents' pleas for help are “falling on deaf ears in Washington and Europe." The parent followed her concerns with a demand and said “close the skies over Ukraine” as she referenced an ongoing call from officials for other countries to.
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