Alina Bushma, a Drexel squash player, is thinking of her family in Ukraine. Her parents and two grandparents have remained in Kyiv since the Russian invasion.
Lera and Alina discuss what it has been like following the conflict form overseas as their families remain in Ukraine.Alina Bushma prepared for perhaps the biggest match of her squash career at Drexel when her mother texted her a snapshot from her day in Ukraine. Inna Bushma wanted to show her daughter the camouflage nets she made as a volunteer helping Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces.
Watching from afar as Russian troops seized the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe has weighed on Bushma. Her family is there, and so are friends and people she knows — many around her age — in school who must now fear for their safety on a daily basis.