MIDDLETOWN, CT (WFSB) – A younger household leaves every little thing they’ve ever recognized to come back to the United States.

It’s a follow-up to a narrative Eyewitness News first informed you about on Tuesday.

A Middletown lady buys aircraft tickets to New York City for her sister, niece and nephew, to allow them to be secure from warfare.

Viktoria Zakhidna says she left every little thing behind, her dwelling, her household, her belongings.

After 48 hours into being within the U.S. she remains to be attempting to wrap her head round what has occurred.

27-year-old Viktoria Zakhidna filmed her travels from Ukraine to Poland.

She wasn’t alone.

Dozens of vehicles are seen sitting in bumper-to-bumper site visitors as households attempt to escape Ukraine.

“Everyone tried to get out of Ukraine. You don’t know what will happen tomorrow and you have to save your kids,” mentioned Viktoria.

And that’s what she did.

Viktoria took her two younger youngsters, 4-year-old Elizabeth and 6-year-old Daniel along with her.

Her sister, Mariana, who Eyewitness News met Tuesday on the Ukrainian National Home in Hartford, purchased three aircraft tickets.

The three flew from Poland to New York.

Mariana filmed video from inside JFK International Airport the place she picked up her household Tuesday evening.

With just one piece of baggage in tow, the journey got here with one more value.

“I’m happy I’m here with my kids in a safe place but they were crying when they had to leave their grandparents, their grandmother, grandfather, their father. They were crying,” Viktoria mentioned.

Along along with her relations, Viktoria additionally left her husband behind.

Ukrainian males between the ages of 18 and 60 are being informed to remain to struggle.

“That is hard to imagine. A lot of thing is hard for me to think about. I have to explain to my kids that we are not here just for small period of time. We are here for a long period of time,” mentioned Viktoria.

The three are actually staying in Middletown as they attempt to navigate what to do from right here.

“I cannot believe it happened. I cannot believe it happened to me. I cannot believe I am here. I have to do something with this because it’s like a changed life,” Viktoria mentioned.

Right now, her husband and different relations are doing okay.

Viktoria labored as a graphic designer, her husband was a soccer coach and her youngsters have been enrolled in class, so what’s subsequent for this household?

Where do they go from right here?

That a part of the story shall be Friday beginning on Eyewitness News at 5.

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