Ukrainian mother and son attacked, robbed say they expected to be safe in Winnipeg after fleeing war
CBC
WARNING: This story contains graphic images and details of violence:
A teenage boy is recovering in hospital after he and his mother were violently attacked and robbed in their Elmwood-East Kildonan neighborhood.
Viktoria Sokolova and her 14-year-old son are Ukrainian newcomers who have been living in Winnipeg for the last 10 months.
On the afternoon of Aug. 3, Sokolova's son met her at the bus stop on Nairn Avenue and Kent Road. As they were walking home, two men approached them on bikes, and asked if they were from Ukraine or Russia.
"He started talking too fast, and I said, 'I don't speak English, I just learned the language'," Sokolova told CBC through the aid of an interpreter.
"They started to ask for money, the only word I could understand was money,"
Sokolova told the men she didn't have any money, and started to walk home with her son, but the two men returned.
"Those two guys when we started walking home, they [were] just behind us, hit us on the head, behind my ear."
Sokolova and her son were attacked with a baseball bat, knocked unconscious, and robbed.
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