Borys Yehorov lets out a heavy sigh and smiles when asked what it was like to land at the Montreal airport and reconnect with his family.
“They were happy to see us,” said Anna Wallach, translating for her Russian-speaking father. “But they also were sad.”
Wallach said her elderly parents have called Kharkiv — Ukraine’s second largest city — home for decades.
“They realized that the life that they had before, they were never going to have it. They left it behind.”
Yehorov, 77, and his wife Galina Yehorova, 76, were living a quiet, comfortable life in their book-filled apartment in central Kharkiv before the conflict with Russia hit close to
