Aktual Indonesia - About a week ago, a US basketball player from Maryland was in Ukraine playing in the international leagues. Little did he know that within days he would urgently start a journey to get back to his home, nearly 5,000 miles away.
Lucious "Lucky" Jones had been playing professional basketball in Ternopil, a town about two hours east of Lviv, for a little over a month.
But early last Thursday, coaches and league officials instructed him to leave the country as Russia began its invasion on Ukraine.
"My heart dropped," Lucky told CNN on Monday, "They called and said, 'Hey, pack your stuff, it's time to go, they're bombing.'"
He and three of his teammates -- two Americans, one Lithuanian -- were the only ones alerted to leave because the other teammates were Ukrainian.
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