Nadia Pishko, 92, was born in Ukraine and fled her home country as child during World War II, eventually building a life in Minneapolis.

Despite the current war in Ukraine, she asked to return to her home country , and that dream came true last week.

"She's a testimony to the strength and resiliency of the Ukrainian people," said Chaplain Howard Dotson.

Nadia Pishko's childhood was a harrowing one. She grew up in Lviv, Ukraine, in the 1930s, when the country experienced mass starvation. And during World War II, her family fled to escape the Germans and Russians. But her love for Ukraine never wavered.

"Since 2013 she's been telling her sons, 'I want to go home. I want to die in Ukraine,'" Dotson said.

Even before she suffered a stroke in February, Nadia Pishko had made up her mind

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