Michael Wynar is relieved to know his family is safe. He personally retrieved them from Ukraine last week as they fled the war torn country.
He walked 100 feet over the border to the place that so many of his loved ones call home — a home now decimated by Russian aggression.
“That was really unreal going into war zone,” said Michael Wynar, a Coloradan who has numerous Ukrainian family members. “As soon as we got them across that NATO border, we felt so much better.”
Wynar helped five of his family members across the border to Slovakia where they still reside as refugees. His brother-in-law, however, is still in Ukraine, unable to leave along with any Ukrainian male aged 18 to 65.
“He wants to help and he is a full-bodied man, he’s strong. And I know if he had the fight, he would fight, too,” Wynar said about his brother-in-law. “He’s doing everything he can. We’re proud of him.”
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