Pavlo Demenshyn wants to be close to nature, have a house of his own, and see his daughter get a good education.
He was hoping New Brunswick could be the place where that happened. Then on Feb. 24, his family’s plan to leave Ukraine for Saint-Quentin, N.B., came crashing down as he heard explosions in the distance followed by Russian military helicopters overhead.
“Until now, we lived a normal and peaceful life,” Demenshyn said, speaking from the southern Ukrainian community of Pishchanka.
“[We] planned our move to Saint-Quentin, and wake up on February 24th. We couldn’t believe what’s happened.
“I was even going to go
