The first time Karen Robb heard her birth father’s voice, it was over the sounds of machine gun fire and bombs as he spoke to her from his home in Kyiv, Ukraine.
“It was two hours of getting to know this person, and then bombing, getting to know this person, and then machine gun fire. It was just one of the more surreal moments of my life.”
Robb reconnected with her birth father, Gary Milani, two years ago after searching for him for decades. He was born in Canada, but has lived in Ukraine for many years.
After Russia launched its
