Scott Swanson
A year ago, Sweet Home, Oregon, was the farthest thing from Daniia Martyniuk’s mind.
In fact, she’d never heard of it.
She and her husband Viktor lived in Odesa, Ukraine, with their two sons, Maksym (Max), now 12, and Daniil, now 9.
“We are an ordinary Ukrainian family that raised two kids,” Daniia Martyniuk said.
They had “plans and dreams,” she said, including one to build a house in 2022. It didn’t happen.