'We Need To Go Now:' Fort Worth Family Recalls 4-Day Long Journey To Flee Ukraine

Arlington TX

03 March, 2022

6:20 PM

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By Sandra Sadek, Fort Worth Report March 2, 2022 In the early hours of Feb. 24, Fort Worth native Kyle Mims woke up to the distant sounds of shelling and bombs outside his home in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital. After 30 minutes, the sounds stopped, and all that remained was a cloudy sky. "You could hear more air traffic, but air traffic was supposed to have stopped," Mims said. "Something was off." Mims is a humanities and Advanced Placement high school teacher at Quality Schools International, a group of non-profit international schools that teach in English. He has been teaching abroad for over 13 years in Kazakhstan, China, Bosnia and now Ukraine. To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.