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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Edd Dracott

British-Ukrainian student, 19, planning to stay in Kyiv to help ‘protect city’

PA Media

A British-Ukrainian student in Kyiv – who woke to the sound of explosions on Thursday morning – is not planning to leave the Ukrainian capital as she wishes to aid the military response to the Russian invasion.

Valentina Butenko is studying politics at University College London but returned to Ukraine a few weeks ago to offer to help with the security crisis there.

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