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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
John Scheerhout

Manc among thousands of refugees stranded at Ukraine border describes the devastation as war erupts

A Manchester man is among thousands of refugees stranded at a Ukrainian border post as people flee the Russian invasion.

Jez Myers, 44, and his girlfriend Maria Romanenko, 29, spent ten hours driving in a friend's Vauxhall Astra from the under-fire capital Kiev to Lviv in the west then to Shehyni at the border with Poland.

Jez, a business consultant from Reddish, has described growing tensions as the queue to cross into Poland increased to 'tens of thousands', with some chanting 'open the door' in a desperate bid to exit Ukraine.

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