But that same law has also created a lot of pain for men with refugee children. Their wives or former wives may have left Ukraine with their children, and at the moment, there’s no way for the fathers to travel abroad to see them.
After more than a week of driving all day and all night through 10 countries, Tetiana and the couple’s oldest son finally arrived in Turku, Finland, where their youngest son, a semipro hockey player, lives. It was there she realized that she didn’t want to go…