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Iona Young

Brave Ukrainian family flee to Edinburgh after getting help from two local friends

A Ukrainian family who were forced to flee their home have told of their four day journey to Edinburgh after a lengthy and stressful visa process.

The family of four were forced to leave their home in Lviv after Putin invaded their homeland and launched airstrikes just 25km from their family home destroying the city.

Mum Natali, her mum 69-year-old Antonina and her two children 15-year-old Nazarii and 25-year-old Iryna moved into the two-bedroom apartment in Lochend that they will call home until the war ends.

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