A teen who fled her native Ukraine in order to escape the horrors of the war with has been crowned homecoming queen at her high school.Kseniia Botezat was living in Chernivisti, a city in southwestern Ukraine, one of the regions many people fled when Russia invaded Ukraine in an unprovoked attack that started February 2022 and has since claimed the lives of more than 25,000 Ukranian soldiers.Three weeks after the war began, Botezat's parents, who were concerned for their daughter's well-being and the uncertainty war brings, sent their daughter to Greenboro, North Carolina, where her grandparents and aunt live.
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