A Ukrainian mum experienced a "miracle" after arriving in Liverpool.
Elena Malenko spent her 37th birthday in Liverpool Women's Hospital with newborn twins, Marta and Maya. She was alone when they were born. Her husband Grygorii, a Kyiv city councillor, is still in Ukraine, which Elena fled with their sons Platon, seven, and Lev, five, when the routine of running to bomb shelters became too much to bear last June.
The former diplomat and language teacher told the ECHO: "These newborn twins are an absolute miracle that happened to us. Before I crossed the border, fleeing war in Ukraine, was my passionate goodbye to Grygorii, and then when I arrived, I found out I was pregnant. It was the only value I could take with me from Ukraine."
