Hamlet Garcia, a Cuban American school choice advocate whose wife is from Ukraine, opened up about the struggle to get his wife's cousins to safety amid Russia's invasion.
The women and their children escaped Ukraine through Poland and reached safety in a country near Poland, Garcia announced on"They are my wife's cousins, but they grew up in the same house as sisters," Garcia told Fox News Digital."My wife came to the United States when she was 9 years old, but they never lost communication.
Garcia shared a photo of an apartment building in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv where Alisa Rogovenko, one of his wife's cousins, had an apartment. The building had been damaged by Russian missiles."She never lived in it, but she was about to move in when the war started," he said.