Elissa Slotkin tweeted the following:
"4/ One of them had a friend whose son volunteered to fight and was taken prisoner by the Russians his father only recently caught a glimpse of him on Russian TV. Another member was from Odessa, which had just been bombed earlier in that same day."Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Elissa Slotkin:
"3/ We had dinner with members of Ukraines parliament, many of whom visited the U.S. in the past few months. Over what felt like a normal dinner in a European capital, we couldnt go two minutes without hearing stories of friends & family who have been through extreme trauma."Read on Twitter
"2/ But behind that veneer of normalcy, things are not normal: no one knows if schools will open again in the fall, people remain concerned that the Russians could strikeKyiv from afar, and, importantly, every single person carries with them painful stories from the near past."Read on Twitter
"In Kyiv, one might be forgiven for thinking that the capital had resumed a sense of normalcy.There are people in the streets, if fewer that usual, and thoughtful displays in front of all major moments showing how the Ukrainians fought off the Russians & defended the city. 1/"Read on Twitter
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