November 2, 2024

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Ukrainian family of 11 arrives in Southwest Florida after escape

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LEE COUNTY

A Ukrainian family members made it to basic safety in Southwest Florida. That spouse and children of 11 landed at Southwest Florida Intercontinental Airport on Saturday night.

WINK News reporter Marcello Cuadra was there as the loved ones walked out of the terminal. Cuadra spoke with the children’s grandparents before Saturday, and they mentioned the last time they noticed their grandchildren was two years back.

Saturday afternoon, this North Port house was typically peaceful and empty. But now, it is stuffed with the seems of a family reunited.

Nelli and Walter Roshuk spoke to WINK Information via a translator. “She states pleasure and also stressing but so grateful that she will be ready to see them on this earth whilst she’s nevertheless right here,” Nelli mentioned.

That similar house is wherever the Roshuks’ son, his spouse and their 9 young children will stay following escaping Ukraine. “This is a home that, with the funds that we made from the spearheading the fundraiser, this is the household that we set a safety deposit on. With the resources we built and on the initial thirty day period of lease. So this is in which they’re going to [be] clearly you can see numerous things are nonetheless needed,” they stated.

A model new household for a relatives that experienced to depart theirs nearly two months back. “They left on the 25th of February. The working day the war started on the 24th. But mainly because they observed the tanks and the planes flying, they packed the auto with the young children only no product merchandise. And they drove to Hungary,” they said.

The journey took them via many international locations and cities, which includes Austria, Germany, Tijuana, and Minneapolis and they ultimately landed in Fort Myers. “She suggests she’s however concerned and struggling for the individuals who are left powering. All of her relatives is not with her. And she problems about the Ukrainian folks in standard. So indeed, a quite disturbing time in her everyday living,” reported Nelli.

Lydia Sokolowski assisted to translate this job interview. She also reported that getting the family to the U.S. was a crew effort and hard work. “We’re all in this together. And to see God solution our prayers and carry this spouse and children below, we just want to praise him loudly, and we Baptists are pretty minimal-keyed in church, but we just want to shout and yell and say ‘thank you Lord,’” Sokolowski mentioned.

After many years aside, Nelli and Walter are at last able to hug their family members as soon as all over again. “I assume the principal concept is cherish your family, enjoy them, hug them because she has not experienced that option for many a long time. This kind of as thank loving your household, but in all this, she thanks God that this is out there to us for now,” Nelli stated.

Marcello requested the pair what the first detail they’ll do collectively would be, and they stated that they’d rejoice their eldest daughter’s 25th marriage anniversary. They strategy to get the whole loved ones collectively.

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