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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Amy-Clare Martin

Efforts to evacuate 52 Ukrainian orphans to UK stall due to 'bureaucratic nightmare'

A mission to bring a group of Ukrainian orphans and unaccompanied children to the UK has stalled after the final paperwork was not signed off.

The 52 youngsters, aged between one and 18, had already fled from war-torn Ukraine and were due to fly to London from Warsaw, Poland on Monday.

But they were unable to leave after they did not receive the final sign off from the Polish Ministry of Families.

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