A Ukrainian couple who fled a warzone has managed to start their own successful business since moving.
Anastasia Kozmina and boyfriend Oleksiy Danko, 22, fled their home village when Russia started its invasion of Ukraine. Anastasia worked as a lawyer, while Oleksiy, having had higher education as a pharmacist, worked at a drug manufacturing plant and at the same time dry-cleaned furniture.
But earlier this year their lives were turned upside down and now having arrived in Southport they have started their own cleaning company. Uklean deals with dry cleaning upholstered furniture. Anastasia said: “We were forced to leave Ukraine because of the beginning of the war in our country.