
A Chicago woman who was trapped in Ukraine by Russia’s invasion of the country has successfully made it into Poland — but the journey for her and her mother is only beginning.
“It feels like it hasn’t stopped, like it’s just been one long day — I mean we still haven’t really slept,” Olga Tsoi told the Chicago Sun-Times on Monday evening. “We are here now, but your brain hasn’t settled because you are constantly thinking about the next goal, and with each of those goals you have tunnel vision, which takes all your mental fortitude to accomplish it.”