ADOPTED CHILDREN FROM UKRAINE,WHO LEFT DAYS BEFORE THE INVASION, NOW HAPPY AND SAFE WITH MANITOBA,(CANADA) FAMILY.

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ADOPTED CHILDREN FROM UKRAINE,WHO LEFT DAYS BEFORE THE INVASION, NOW HAPPY AND SAFE WITH MANITOBA,(CANADA) FAMILY.

By Chandrayee Roy Choudhury, Canada:

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.

", '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 — 
Those siblings, who range from age six to 16 and speak varying levels of English, have supported each other throughout the big transition.

Now with six adoptive children from Ukraine, the couple have been navigating tough but important conversations with them about what is going on in the war.