My motherland was invaded by Russia, something I only heard about as a child when my parents told me about their time back in the Soviet Union. My parents fled as refugees and reached the United States of America in 1989 with 3 little children, my mother being pregnant, and me not even being a thought yet. They traveled with barely any money and stopped in many countries along the way before finally reaching what seemed liked freedom at last. I had the pleasure of visiting Ukraine for the first

Ukraine's Motherland statue