One of Daria Znatkova's earliest memories is of a burning fighter plane and its crew falling towards her grandmother's home. She was just 10-years-old and living in Luhansk, eastern Ukraine, when they saw the blazing jet falling from the sky.
"My mother covered me with herself and I seemed to have gone deaf," she told WalesOnline. "Luckily a gust of wind carried the wreckage of the aircraft into the gardens."
It was the start of fighting in the region in 2014 between separatists backed by Russia and the Ukranian government. Daria and her mum fled 200 miles to what they believed was safety in Ukraine's second city Kharkov (also known as Kharkiv) with little more than their papers. There they built a new life with Daria's mum working as a university lecturer.
