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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
May Bulman

Couple in UK left ‘helpless’ as their young children trapped in besieged Ukrainian city

McDonald Majawala

A couple who fled from their home in Ukraine have said they feel “helpless” as their two young children are still trapped in a region that has fallen to Russian forces.

McDonald Majawala, 29, and Olya Majawala, 31, were at their home in Kyiv when the invasion started – but their children, Emily and Ethan, aged two and three, were more than 340 miles away staying with their grandparents in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson.

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