A native of Ukraine who lives in Apple Valley says her sister's family and mother were able to escape from the invading Russian troops and are now staying with a family in Poland.
“She woke up on Thursday morning to the sounds of bombs exploding around her neighborhood,” Dasha Lawson said. “She had to grab whatever she could, and get her kids, ages five and ten, and flee to the Ukrainian border.”
Dasha Lawson's brother-in-law, though, remained behind with the Ukrainian military, and she told WCCO's Paul and Jordana that she has been able to talk with him.
“My sister is able to communicate with him so far,” Lawson says. “But we don’t know how long lines of communication will be open with him because in a war situation, you know, Wi-Fi is not always available. Her husband had to stay back and join the military, go back and fight with the rest of the men. And my sister was taken to a refugee camp in Poland.”
Lawson and her husband Mark are trying to bring all of their Ukrainian family members to Minnesota. However, they told WCCO it hasn't been easy.
“From what was related to us, they told her to go to the Ukrainian Embassy in Warsaw (Poland) and get travel documents,” Mark Lawson said. “How are you going to do that? They’re busy fighting a way. That’s what doesn’t make any sense here.”
Mark Lawson says they're trying to navigate the bureaucracy of getting them to Minnesota and have been in contact with the office of U.S.
Senator Amy Klobuchar.
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