“I have been crying my eyes out for over a week now,” Alyona Nickelsen told The Epoch Times. “It is simply unbearable to hear and see what is going on in Kyiv and Chernihiv where I am from, and in the rest of Ukraine with all my relatives and friends there. … This is just a horror beyond your worst nightmares.” The Ukrainian-born former Southern Californian resident who now lives in Texas shares similar feelings with many other Ukrainian Americans who are trying to emotionally process Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Russian military invasion of their homeland. Nickelsen’s former hometown is located 88 miles northeast of the capital of Kiev, where many residents are waiting with uncertainty as Russian bombs drop from the sky onto Ukrainian soil. “We need to close the sky above Ukraine and declare a no-fly zone! If we cannot do that, at least let’s give them a Patriot …