A Manitoba woman whose family recently adopted three children from Ukraine was in that country just a week before Russia invaded, when she got an unnerving phone call from the adoption facilitator.
“[They said], ‘Your kids’ passports are in and you are moving within an hour. So pack everything, pack the kids. We are moving you right now,'” Trish Braun recalls.
Braun was in the country preparing to bring home three siblings from a Ukrainian orphanage — a process that was cut short as the threat of an impending invasion loomed.
“To go from three weeks left [of our trip] to, like, ‘We can
