When Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Lily Tretiak, a physician in Kyiv, and her husband took only 20 minutes to make a life-altering choice: to leave the country with their two young children. After travelling through Hungary and spending nine months in Italy with Tretiak’s godmother, the family eventually arrived in Canada via the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel (CUAET) program.
Well I’m happy for her - it sounds like it’s a good thing that she reconsidered her life goals, and found something more fulfilling.