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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Manny Ramos

A Chicagoan, back home to visit Ukraine, trapped by invasion: ‘We need help. This is real war.’

A family huddles together inside a bomb shelter in the basement of a school in Kyiv, Ukraine, hours after Russia launched airstrikes on the city. This is one of the places where Olga Tsoi of Rogers Park and her mother have sought shelter after the bombings began. | Olga Tsoi

The bus ride from Kyiv to Lviv in Ukraine normally doesn’t take 18 hours.

But normally there wouldn’t be blockades and military checkpoints along the way.

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