{"id":468027,"date":"2026-09-18T15:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468027\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T15:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:32:15","slug":"la-ukrainian-refugees-face-new-fears-for-family-left-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468027\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Ukrainian refugees face new fears for family left behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 In recent weeks, Russia has escalated its war on Ukraine by deploying fast, jet-powered drones over Kyiv, cutting the time residents have to reach shelter and making the capital feel like a frontline city for the first time in years.<\/p>\n<p>Four and a half years since the full-scale invasion, the frontline with Russia has barely moved, even as both sides have expanded strikes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to broker a ceasefire remain stalled, despite recent visits \u00a0to Moscow and Kyiv by U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For Ukrainians who fled abroad, like Los Angeles refugee Anastasiia Chuba, the escalation adds fresh worry for families left behind and uncertainty about surviving another wartime winter.<\/p>\n<p>Click the arrow above to watch the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 In recent weeks, Russia has escalated its war on Ukraine by deploying fast, jet-powered drones&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[31532,2997,7,31533,48,52,51,47,50,49,1492,68433,31534,5996],"class_list":["post-468027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-app-human-interest","tag-app-public-safety","tag-california","tag-human-interest","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-public-safety","tag-ryan-thompson","tag-socal-editors-picks","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}