When Veronika Yasynska was woken by the sounds of three powerful blasts outside her home in Ukraine, she knew her life was about to change forever.
But she never would have predicted that one year later she would be in Liverpool helping promote a major global event dedicated to her home nation after 12 months of war and destruction.
Having fled Ukraine when Russia's invasion began, Veronika, 29, first made her way to Poland and then onto the UK where she has settled in Liverpool. She is now an events project assistant for the city council's culture team working to promote May's Eurovision Song Contest.
