AUSTIN, Texas - Aleksei Nikolin attempts to hold a crying, wiggling toddler inside his cramped car as he video chats with a FOX 7 reporter. "Yes.
You see that they are crying because we are tired. We are spending many hours sleeping in the car with no direction." he says.
Nikolin, an employee for Peeklogic, an Austin-based IT company, fled Ukraine with his family two to four days ago. He says he is unsure what day they left — they have lost track of time. "Each day we're living in a new place.
We're running from the previous place because they're afraid that those places they are leaving the night before will be occupied by Russian troops," he explained.