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Lily Ford & Ryan Merrifield

Brit couple face nervous wait for surrogate baby's passports amid Ukraine tensions

A British couple living in Ukraine while their surrogate-born baby is issued a passport have described their "nerve-racking" wait amid mounting tensions between Russia and Ukraine.

The threat of a Russian invasion has put Nato forces on standby and led the Foreign Office to begin withdrawing some staff and dependents from the embassy in Kyiv - where some British expats said they have bags packed ready to "go west".

Ben Garratt and his wife, Alice, live in Queen's Park in London but moved to the Ukrainian capital at the end of the December to meet their baby and oversee official paperwork.

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