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Miami Herald
Miami Herald
Lifestyle
Syra Ortiz-Blanes

Miami has become a haven for Ukrainians fleeing war. Here’s one young mother’s story

MIAMI -- When Iryna Timoshenko left her woodland home near Kyiv on a cold February day, the Russian bombs had not yet set the Ukrainian skies alight.

She would have taken more than a business-trip suitcase filled with work clothes and her laptop. She would have packed all her country if she could have. Instead, Timoshenko said goodbye to her family and traveled from the Ukrainian capital to Lviv, an architectural jewel near the Polish border.

Less than 24 hours later, she awoke in her hotel bed to a flood of messages.

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