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A Ukrainian family made it to security in Southwest Florida. That family of 11 landed at Southwest Florida (*11*) Airport on Saturday night time.
WINK News reporter Marcello Cuadra was there because the family walked out of the terminal. Cuadra spoke with the kids’s grandparents earlier Saturday, and so they mentioned the final time they noticed their grandchildren was two years in the past.
Saturday afternoon, this North Port residence was largely quiet and empty. But now, it’s full of the sounds of a family reunited.
Nelli and Walter Roshuk spoke to WINK News through a translator. “She says joy and also worrying but so grateful that she will be able to see them on this earth while she’s still here,” Nelli mentioned.
That similar house is the place the Roshuks’ son, his spouse and their 9 youngsters will keep after escaping Ukraine. “This is a house that, with the funds that we made from the spearheading the fundraiser, this is the house that we put a security deposit on. With the funds we made and on the first month of rent. So this is where they’re going to [be] obviously you can see many things are still needed,” they mentioned.
A model new residence for a family that needed to depart theirs almost two months in the past. “They left on the 25th of February. The day the war started on the 24th. But because they saw the tanks and the planes flying, they packed the car with the children only no material goods. And they drove to Hungary,” they mentioned.
The journey took them by means of a number of nations and cities, together with Austria, Germany, Tijuana, and Minneapolis and so they lastly landed in Fort Myers. “She says she’s still worried and suffering for the people who are left behind. All of her family is not with her. And she worries about the Ukrainian people in general. So yes, a very disturbing time in her life,” mentioned Nelli.
Lydia Sokolowski helped to translate this interview. She additionally mentioned that getting the family to the U.S. was a workforce effort. “We’re all in this together. And to see God answer our prayers and bring this family here, we just want to praise him loudly, and we Baptists are very low-keyed in church, but we just want to shout and yell and say ‘thank you Lord,’” Sokolowski mentioned.
After years aside, Nelli and Walter are lastly in a position to hug their family as soon as once more. “I think the main message is cherish your family, love them, hug them because she has not had that opportunity for many years. Such as thank loving your family, but in all this, she thanks God that this is available to us for now,” Nelli mentioned.
Marcello requested the couple what the very first thing they’ll do collectively could be, and so they mentioned that they’d rejoice their eldest daughter’s twenty fifth wedding ceremony anniversary. They plan to get the entire family collectively.
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