Oleg Bebeshko’s mother-in-law is one of the thousands of Ukrainians hiding underground in Kyiv’s subway system, as a barrage of explosions strike the capital city — part of an invasion by Russian forces.
Bebeshko and his family live on the Island now in Rice Point, but some of the family still lives in Ukraine.
Just a few minutes before being interviewed by CBC’s Island Morning, Bebeshko had been in touch with his mother-in-law. He said hours earlier, she had heard sirens and made her way underground into the subway-turned-bomb shelter.
“She’s staying there now, in the underground because the underground doesn’t rock,” Bebeshko
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