'All day we hear sirens,' one of Dmitriy Boyko's cousins texted him from Ukraine. 'Mom is still in the hospital. Today I waited for 3 hours in a freezing cold to get medication for my mom'
Dmitriy Boyko starts every morning with a single text to his family in Ukraine:"How are you guys doing?" Boyko, born and raised in Kyiv, has been forced to watch from thousands of miles away as his cousins — one with a 4-month-old baby who fled to western Ukraine and another in Kyiv with her sick mother — suffer in fear amid theBoyko was 11 when he, his brother, his sister and his parents moved to the Bronx.
Another message from Kravetskaya:"We are alive. Today we are expecting a shooting...don't know anymore...they bombed the TV tower and Babiy Yar," she said, referencing the Holocaust location where thousands of Jews were killed by Nazis, including members of their family. "You feel like you're helpless, really. You're not there with them," he said."But I try to rationalize that I'm probably more helpful here than over there."
Boyko said that Russian President Vladimir Putin's goal to tear apart the Ukrainian people has not succeeded.
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