'90 Day Fiance's' Loren Says the War in Ukraine Has Been 'Sad' and 'Scary' for Husband Alexei

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90 Day FiancécoupleLoren and Alexei Brovarnikare opening up about how the crisis in Ukraine is affecting their family as the unrest in Alexei’s native country rages on.

In a conversation withEntertainment Tonight, Loren said that she and Alexei are worried for his family that still lives in Ukraine.

“He has family there still [in Ukraine] and he even said, I didn’t think it was going to affect me as much as it did and it’s still affecting him,” she said. “I don’t want to say our tone in our house has been depressing — it’s been sad, it’s scary.”

When Alexei met Loren, he was living in Israel, but he spent time living in Ukraine as a child.

“Because this is real, I mean, he grew up in Ukraine and then grew up in Israel and those are two spotlight countries and it’s hard, but we do talk about it and it’s very important to talk about instead of bottling it up,” she added.

After meeting on 90 Day Fiance, the couple were given their own spinoff show,Loren & Alexei: After the 90 Days, which follows the pair as they navigate life in Florida with their growing family. Last year, the two welcomed their second child, sonAsher Noah. They are also parents to sonShai Josef.

Alexei is just one of many90 Day Fiancéstars with roots in Ukraine.Yara ZayaandNatalie Mordovtsevahave both shared theirprayers and hopes for peacein the eastern region.

Various countries have also pledged aid or military support to Ukraine, whose president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has pleaded for peace talks while urging his country to resist.

Putin insists Ukraine has historic ties to Russia and he is acting in the interest of so-called “peacekeeping.”

“The prayers of the entire world are with the people of Ukraine,” PresidentJoe Bidensaid as the invasion began in force in February.

source: people.com