“They were trying to find a way to get to CNN and find out where the bombs were coming from and stuff,” Mo Creek says now, from the safety of his parents’ home in Upper Marlboro, Md. “They were telling me, ‘Dude, they’re getting very close to (your) area.’ We was already getting news like, Kharkiv had just got bombed. Kyiv had already had the tanks over there; a tank just ran over a car with somebody driving it. They was like, Odessa Airport was just bombed; that’s where I was supposed to get my flight (out of the country) from. I was definitely getting the news. It was just a crazy thing to hear the information and know that we might have to go to one of these borders to even get out.”