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Jenny Foulds

Helensburgh dad escapes Ukraine with family as 'tsunami of refugees' flee

A dad has told of his family’s terrifying flee over the Ukraine border as his brother still desperately tries to escape the war-torn country.

Stuart McKenzie, 51, loaded his family, including his frail mother-in-law, into his car and made an 18-hour dash from Kyiv to Poland on Thursday morning as Russian troops advanced.

Yesterday (Monday), the Helensburgh man told the Lennox Herald they were safely bunkered down in a Krakow hotel and were trying to help as many other families as they could.

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