Paulo Fonseca: Former Roma manager shares family escape story from Ukraine

By Amanda Davies and Lizete Dos Santos, CNN

Updated 0908 GMT (1708 HKT) March 19, 2022

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(CNN)They were woken in the early hours by the sound of bombs landing within earshot of their apartment in Kyiv. Like many others, they fled Ukraine, setting off on aperilous journey to safety.

Paulo Fonseca, the former Shakhtar Donetsk and AS Roma football manager, and his Ukrainian wife Katerina, first attempted to flee the country by car, along with their toddler and Katerina's parents.After encountering gridlocked traffic, they were forced to spend another night in the capital inside a hotel bunker, before enduring a 30-hour car journey through Moldova to