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    Meghan found love in Ukraine. Now her heart is breaking as she evacuates

    American Meghan Neville and her boyfriend moved to Ukraine to be near his family. But rising tension with Russia forced the couple to evacuate this week. She hopes they can go back in a month or so.
    by Wynne Davis Feb 15, 2022 4 minutes
    American Meghan Neville and her boyfriend, Maksym Lushpenko, left Ukraine for Warsaw on Monday. They decided to leave after warnings from the U.S. government that commercial flights might soon stop flying to and from the country amid rising tension with Russia.

    Love is what brought American Meghan Neville to Ukraine – and in some ways, it's also what forced her to leave on Monday.

    Neville's love story starts about two years ago when she was visiting the country for fun. She was at a Christmas market and heard a man speaking English.

    "I just went up to him and said hi, and we hit it off really well," she said.

    They hit it off so well that she later moved to the Netherlands where he was living full time. Then they moved to Spain, where she was working at the time.

    But her boyfriend, Maksym Lushpenko, dreamed of going

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