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Over 80 Lives Successfully Evacuated From Ukraine by a Privately Run, Donor-Funded Rescue Operation Project Dynamo

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Over 80 Lives Successfully Evacuated From Ukraine by a Privately Run, Donor-Funded Rescue Operation Project Dynamo
A little girl waits on a bus as another group prepares to evacuate Kyiv on Feb. 16, 2022. Courtesy of James Judge, Project Dynamo
Patricia Tolson
Patricia Tolson
Reporter
3/5/2022|Updated: 3/7/2022
On Wednesday, March 2, it was 32 degrees in Kyiv, Ukraine. It was 10 a.m. and Bryan Stern was cold. A steady snow fell as he paced an icy road on the Romanian side of the border. He had been awake for three days. The night before, there were shots fired and shelling. But he had just evacuated another 35 American, British, Afghan, and Ukrainian citizens from Kyiv on their way to a safe house just before the tanks rolled in. By now, they were on the other side of the Romanian border. From there, they would go on to a hotel in Bucharest. From there—on to the rest of their lives. The operation is called Project Dynamo. Each mission is named in honor of the NASA Apollo missions. Wednesday was Apollo Six.
Bryan Stern, co-founder of Project Dynamo, speaks to The Epoch Times on Feb. 3, 2022, right after another bus full of American, British, Afghan, and Ukrainian citizens pulled away and started toward the Romanian/Ukrainian border as part of another evacuation. (Courtesy of Bryan Stern, Project Dynamo)
Bryan Stern, co-founder of Project Dynamo, speaks to The Epoch Times on Feb. 3, 2022, right after another bus full of American, British, Afghan, and Ukrainian citizens pulled away and started toward the Romanian/Ukrainian border as part of another evacuation. Courtesy of Bryan Stern, Project Dynamo
Patricia Tolson
Patricia Tolson
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Patricia Tolson is an award-winning Epoch Times reporter who covers human interest stories, election policies, education, school boards, and parental rights. Ms. Tolson has 20 years of experience in media and has worked for outlets including Yahoo!, U.S. News, and The Tampa Free Press. Send her your story ideas: [email protected]
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