A Ukrainian woman who fled Kyiv to stay with family in New York detailed her “devastating” escape from her homeland to The Post after arriving safely at Kennedy Airport Friday evening.
Marina Stepaniuk, 37, embraced her cousin’s husband Dmytro Shuba, 36, as he picked her up at the airport and presented her with purple and white carnations.
Stepaniuk, an event planner in Ukraine’s capital, said she knew she “should flee the city” when Russian airstrikes began on Feb. 24.
“I saw Russian planes over the Ukrainian sky – the explosions, the sounds, [buildings] were shaking from the vibrations,” Stepaniuk said in Ukrainian, as Shuba translated.
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