Varvara Shmygalova is faced with a horrifying reality every time she picks up the phone to call her family in Ukraine.
Since Russian forces invaded her home country, the Toronto resident can’t be sure anyone will be alive to answer her calls.
“You just really hope they’re not dead yet,” Shmygalova told CBC News.
She spoke to her grandmother and grandfather Thursday, both of whom are in their mid 80s. The two were in an underground garage next to their home at the time, because it was the only place they could go to seek shelter as fighting rages and bombs
