As the situation in Ukraine escalates, Ukrainian citizens are increasingly afraid for their lives. They are even afraid to escape during the day, and are only escaping at nighttime, with security escort.
On Monday, a Jewish man and Israeli citizen who had been living in Ukraine, Roman Brodsky, was accidentally shot and killed on his way to Moldova. Brodsky was part of a convoy of vehicles traveling to the Moldovan border to leave the country when they were stopped at a checkpoint by Ukrainian forces who opened fire.
“They thought he was Chechen or something and killed him,” his father tells the Kan broadcaster. He was hit, badly hurt, and died at the scene.
Israel Foreign Ministry officials spoke to his wife who was also wounded in the shooting and is still stranded in Ukraine with their two children.
As a man who called Chabad of Moldova for help put it, “Until I safely leave Ukraine, I don’t know that I will be alive tomorrow. I can’t think about anything other than leaving.”
According to the United Nations, 352 civilians in Ukraine have been killed since the war’s onset last Thursday.
Amidst all the chaos, the Ukrainian refugees know that they can turn to Chabad of Moldova for support and care. Thousands of meals have been served, and hundreds of beds prepared for the refugees.
