A Ukrainian woman has told of her desperate bid to get her family out of the country amid Russian invasion as she heartbreakingly volunteered to “swap places” in order to keep them safe.
Larysa Mishchenko said her ten-year-old granddaughter “cries herself to sleep every night” amid the threat of Kremlin troops advancing into the country.
The 59-year-old, originally from Cherkasy, was among a throng of protesters who braved freezing conditions to demonstrate outside Edinburgh’s Russian consulate building in the West End of the capital to protest against military action.
