How one Ukrainian family escaped the war zone

"They completely turned off the lights in our city and the sirens was going off and I’m trying to pancikly put stuff in the suitcases and it’s terrifying," said Valentyna Kondyra, a Ukrainian refugee. Kondyra got a call from her daughter Oksana Condon, who lives in Jersey City, that the war in Ukraine had started.

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