A man from Westchester found himself on a 19-hour mission to escape Ukraine as the first waves of Russian troops entered the country.
Petro Rondiak found himself among the thousands in Ukraine fleeing to nearby countries where they might find safety from the invasion of Russia.
The man from Westchester managed a 19-hour journey to escape the country and cross the border into Romania once the violence began. “I was I was internally devastated, that this free and democratic country could be punished like this by an autocratic regime," he said over a video call. Rondiak manages an automotive company with 800 employees in Ukraine. When he got the warning call from his wife here in New York, he jumped into an SUV and started driving west toward the border.Rondiak and a colleague decided to take back roads through Ukraine, fearing an encounter with Russian forces on the main roads.
"And in some points, they're pretty bad, like nature's already taking its bites out of the side of the road, or big unintended potholes, for instance," he said of the journey.
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