Galyna Danyliuk knew she would miss her daughter and grandsons when they fled to Canada shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, but she felt it was best she stay behind to protect their family home.
The 68-year-old hairdresser lives in Rivne, with a population of 240,000, about 330 kilometres west of the capital of Kyiv.
Danyliuk's daughter Kateryna Stepanchuk and her two sons, ages 12 and 16, left Ukraine last year, just months after the Russian invasion.She and her son-in-law Anatolly Stepanchuk remain behind. Anastasiia Stepanchuk has been in Calgary since 2018, where she obtained her doctorate in neuroscience, and now conducts research on dementia and Alzheimer's at the University of Calgary's Foothills campus."They've been adapting remarkably well. However, I've been talking to my brothers ... and they still miss home a lot," she said.
"All of a sudden, people in the market are running around in panic and she was just like, 'Well I'm going to go to the store and buy a couple of things because there's not going to be lines anymore,"' she added with a laugh.
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