Former Miss Ukraine Veronika Didusenko recalls her escape with son amid Russian invasion: 'I had to survive'
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Veronika Didusenko explained how she escaped Ukraine with her 7-year-old son, Alex, after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the invasion on Feb. 24.
"I turned on the news and went to my Facebook feed to find out what was going on," the 26-year-old recalled to Fox News Digital. "I saw my friends were posting things like, ‘The war has started. The Russians have invaded Ukraine and they are bombing Kyiv.’ I was so shocked. I just took all of my clothes - I already had my luggage ready. I woke up my son [Alex], and I took him to my car. I just started driving to the west of Ukraine. I had to get out of there."
The beauty queen, who won the title of Miss Ukraine 2018, first realized something was wrong several days before - on Feb. 18. At the time, American President Biden said he was convinced Russian President Vladimir Putin had decided to invade Ukraine and that he believed Russian forces would target Kyiv "in the coming week" or sooner.
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