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She fled war to protect her kids. Ukrainian mom now worries about life in US: 'I don't know what to do'
Dennis Wagner
USA TODAY
A Pacific breeze wafts through Olga Kovalchuk’s blond hair as she watches her kids play in a San Diego Bay park more than 6,300 miles from their home in Ukraine.
And as she tries to make sense of life as a refugee.
Last week, the single mom was hunkered with those children in a basement at their apartment complex while bombs and missiles rained over Cherkasy, a city of 278,000 on the Dnieper River.