A couple who arrived in the UK after fleeing Ukraine are set to return to the war-torn country because of the ongoing cost of living crisis in Britain. Joe Place, 29, and his wife, 34-year-old Irina, were forced to leave their home in Kyiv after Russia launched its invasion in February, the Mirror reports.
The couple then travelled to Joe's hometown of Sheffield, Yorkshire, but were met with "terrible" housing and skyrocketing living costs. Irina, who received a Ukraine Family Scheme visa, and her husband tried for seven months to make life in the UK work, but have now decided to return to Ukraine - despite the country still being at war.
Joe, a PhD student and content writer, said: "This comes to the problem that everyone in the UK seems to be facing with finding (a rental). We doubled our budget and more … we had a very strict list of requirements and we just kept going, 'OK, well, compromise on this, compromise on this, compromise on this'.
