Twelve months ago Daryna Vshkanovs was living in the flat of her dreams in Kyiv.
She moved into the property towards the start of 2021 and in the months after the 31-year-old was offered a job as an estate agent. “I got two dreams” she tells the ECHO from a café in Kirkdale, “the perfect job and perfect flat.”
It’s a year since she, her husband and three year old child stepped foot in the apartment. After the first Russian bombs fell on the Ukrainian capital, Daryna picked up a small pink rucksack, the same one she carries with her today, and planned her escape from the city.
