A Glasgow delivery driver put his life on the line to rescue his friend's wife and newborn from the Romania-Ukraine border.
25.02.2022 - 02:59 / ok.co.uk
Sean Cusick from Glasgow has found himself in an unimaginable situation, stranded in Eastern Ukraine with his wife and their two-year-old son.The family have "no money" for food and are spending their time hiding in a bunker after "waking up to huge explosions." Due to travel document issues, Sean and his family have no means of escaping back to Scotland where they desperately want to be. Here, Sean tells OK! his account of things amid Russia's "full-scale" invasion of the country... Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter The atmosphere here in Kharkiv, Ukraine, is scary.Tension can be felt everywhere, and a lot of people are desperately trying to find shelter, my neighbours included.
I was woken up at 4:45 in the morning by huge explosions.There's so much fighting and it sounds like bombs are being dropped here right now. I'm from Glasgow but I'm here in the Ukraine with my wife Chloe and two-year-old son. My wife lived in Shenzhen for around ten years, and we had planned to reunite and get married but Covid separated us.Then, like many others in China, her visa wasn't renewed and she had to leave China in October of last year so we met in Ukraine and it was one of the happiest days of my life, to hold her again and see our son.
We married in November and we've been in the process of getting her documents to leave Ukraine ever since. Currently she has no valid national ID nor passport. We want to get back to the UK – to Scotland – especially with the situation we now find ourselves in.
We can't get food or drink, or money from the banks. We need quite a lot of money to get back to the UK. I've been being supported by friends and family for months and I
.A Glasgow delivery driver put his life on the line to rescue his friend's wife and newborn from the Romania-Ukraine border.
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