Much of what this outspoken youngish phenomenon keeps saying about what happened earlier this year is not true despite her performances on Instagram and other places where she talks of trauma and PTSD.

She was never in any danger.

Her first location was never under any attack and her second location which was even further away from the actual fighting was even safer.

This was why her name trended not that long go when coupled with the name of a disgraced actor who also didn’t tell the truth.

Olga Tsoi

War in Ukraine

Chicagoan home after escaping war in Ukraine: ‘I’m incredibly lucky’

Olga Tsoi, 31, had hoped to bring her Ukrainian mother with her. Instead, Oksana Tsoi will resettle in Canada since it opened its boarders to Ukrainian refugees first.

Last week, Olga Tsoi boarded a plane in Poland, headed home to Chicago after escaping Ukraine.

And she had this gut-wrenching feeling she had failed her mission.

She had not arrived in Poland by choice. Home for a visit to her native Ukraine, she’d fled when Russian forces invaded in February.

After making it to Poland with her mother, Tsoi spent 90 days there, working in soup kitchens and delivering bags of groceries to families in need. She helped find housing for families by putting them up in hotels and tried her best to help those displaced develop a course of action — such as where they could relocate.

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She lives in Rogers Park but grew up in Ukraine and was back there to spend the holidays with her mother just before the war. She had knee surgery while there, and her recovery took longer than expected, forcing her to stay longer than planned.

Just a few days before she was finally set to fly back to Chicago, she was awakened by the explosions of Russian bombs hitting Kyiv.

Russia had launched its attack just before sunrise, with artillery strikes hitting Kyiv and other major cities.

She said those very things could’ve happened to her and her mother, who were stuck in a bomb shelter at the beginning of the invasion. Had they not found a way out of Kyiv, Tsoi said, they planned to stay at her sister’s apartment, which they considered safe.

Instead, that apartment building was raided by Russian troops, who tore down doors, destroying personal items they found inside. The building now is unrecognizable, Olga Tsoi said.

She doesn’t want to think about what would’ve happened had they been there.

“It could’ve been us,” she said. “It’s crazy how close it was to us.” – Source

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