Anastasiia Seleznova’s Facebook page features a video of her younger sister, Yasieniia Manko, 9, competing in a kung-fu tournament in their hometown of Kharkiv, Ukraine.
But even Manko’s fighting spirit could not prepare her for the war that was about envelope her hometown.
That’s when her sister sprang into action.
The 25-year-old Canadian Mennonite University international student travelled to Poland to meet and pick up her sister, who was huddled in a bomb shelter in Kharkiv, a city being shelled by Russian troops.
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Manko says “the most significant memory is when the air fighter was passing by because the walls trembling so much that the windows were