A British man living in Ukraine has described feeling “worried and anxious” as his Ukrainian wife and son await approval from the UK visa office to flee the country, while another has vowed to “stick by Ukraine” through a possible Russian invasion.
Mounting tensions are nearly at breaking point as Boris Johnson warned that Vladimir Putin appears “bent on a full-scale invasion” and vowed to swiftly introduce the “first barrage” of sanctions against Russia.
Nathan Rossiter, 32, from Harlow in Essex, has spent most of the past seven years in Kharkiv – which is around 25 miles from the Russian border in northeast Ukraine – but has faced prolonged difficulty in securing a visa for his wife Lena and their five-year-old son, Leo.
