Drew Sample Has Family In The Ukraine

[|High School Harry|]

Yeah, wrong place but please leave it here for awhile so people can see before moving.  thanks.

 

https://www.fox19.com/2022/03/07/family-bengals-tight-end-drew-sample-stuck-ukraine/

 

Family of Bengals tight end Drew Sample stuck in Ukraine

 

By Jared Goffinet

Published: Mar. 7, 2022 at 12:46 PM EST|Updated: 12 minutes ago

 

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - The Russian invasion of Ukraine is impacting Cincinnati Bengals tight end Drew Sample as he and his wife try to get family members out of the worn-torn country.

Drew and his wife, Angelina, appeared Monday on “Fox & Friends” to discuss the bleak conditions their family in Ukraine is living through.

Angelina, who was born in Ukraine, has family on both her mother’s and father’s side of the family, she explained.

Angelina said her 76-year-old grandmother lives in a rural country area where not all homes are equipped with a basement that they could shelter in. What she does have, and where her grandma is hiding, is a storage unit primarily used to store cans.

The conditions her grandmother is living in as Russian attacks persist are those which Angelina says are not ideal for a 76-year-old woman.

“So, it’s definitely cold, it’s winter, it’s snowed there in the last couple of days,” Angelina explained. " So, the conditions are pretty miserable. For a 76-year-old woman to be hiding in a basement at her age is just dangerous for her to get in and out, but to be in her house is even more dangerous with air raid sirens going off.”

On Monday, Russia announced a limited cease-fire and safe corridors to allow civilians to escape besieged Ukrainian cities, the Associated Press reports.

Angelina and Drew’s family are hesitant to leave the country because, as the Bengals tight end explained, leaving Ukraine for a neighboring country might not be better.

“And so, for her family, you know, without any concrete plan of what’s going to happen once they leave the country, they really don’t want to leave,” Drew told the show hosts. “We’re really their only other family in the United States. Even if they flee to these countries boarding Ukraine, they’re not really leaving into anything better.”

For now, Drew said the unknown of staying home in Ukraine is better than fleeing to another country where they will encounter more unknowns.

Drew said he and his wife are working on getting a plan in place to not only get their family out of Ukraine but to the United States.

In what is said to be Europe’s fastest-growing refugee crisis since World War II, 1.7 million people have fled Ukraine, according to the Associated Press.

 

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[Le Tigre]

Russia is meeting its match in Ukrainian pluckiness on the battlefield I have been reading. They may have the numbers, but are getting beaten to the punch in effective mobile defense counter-attacks, blunting them. Many Ukrainians are staying put, and civilians are participating in the defense of many towns/cities. Hopefully, not being able to have a quick win will move the Russians towards the exit ramps. 

 

War is the worst on civilians. May God protect these poor souls. 

[UncleEarl]

1 hour ago, Le Tigre said:

Russia is meeting its match in Ukrainian pluckiness on the battlefield I have been reading. They may have the numbers, but are getting beaten to the punch in effective mobile defense counter-attacks, blunting them. Many Ukrainians are staying put, and civilians are participating in the defense of many towns/cities. Hopefully, not being able to have a quick win will move the Russians towards the exit ramps. 

 

War is the worst on civilians. May God protect these poor souls. 

 

Putin will turn that place into rubble first.

[Le Tigre]

16 hours ago, UncleEarl said:

 

Putin will turn that place into rubble first.

It would have to be localized nukes then. And even he isn’t that stupid. It’s all about restoring pre-1991 Soviet borders. 
 

Much like the Soviet incursion into Afghanistan, the Russians may be numerically superior, but have awful tactics and supply is a disaster. They do not—even now—control the air. They will grind to a halt eventually. 
 

And how is this developing?: the Russians have taken to attacking refugee columns and urban civilian centers. This is classic Stalinist-era style, when military force cannot do the job. 
 

Unfortunately, it will take more Russians being sent home in bags, to get any movement to exit ramps. And that will have to come from the Russian people themselves

[|High School Harry|]

I think everyone has seen this.

Perhaps a Mod can now move elsewhere

because it is becoming more a discussion of

the situation than Drew's wife's family.

(not a criticism of the direction and content of the discussion)

[UncleEarl]

2 hours ago, Le Tigre said:

It would have to be localized nukes then. And even he isn’t that stupid. It’s all about restoring pre-1991 Soviet borders. 
 

Much like the Soviet incursion into Afghanistan, the Russians may be numerically superior, but have awful tactics and supply is a disaster. They do not—even now—control the air. They will grind to a halt eventually. 
 

And how is this developing?: the Russians have taken to attacking refugee columns and urban civilian centers. This is classic Stalinist-era style, when military force cannot do the job. 
 

Unfortunately, it will take more Russians being sent home in bags, to get any movement to exit ramps. And that will have to come from the Russian people themselves

 

My comment was an over-generalization, but I don't disagree.  Putin will just keep pounding the city centers until Ukraine gives up (they wont) or internal dissension reaches a breaking point.  Putin looks pretty entrenched, but could this "incursion" be his downfall?  We'll see.  He wants to be Stalin, but not sure he has that juice.

 

And, yeah...you're right Harry.  This doesn't belong here.  Sorry.