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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Helen Pidd and Diane Taylor

‘No humanity whatsoever’: pleas for UK to grant visa to autistic Ukrainian boy

Timothy Tymoshenko with Julie Elliot
Timothy Tymoshenko with Julie Elliot, who wants to care for the 16-year-old in Lancashire. Photograph: Diane Taylor

A British man who has turned his Polish castle into a makeshift hotel for Ukrainian refugees has accused the UK government of showing “no humanity whatsoever” for not allowing a severely autistic teenager to come to live with an approved foster carer in Lancashire.

Pleas are mounting for compassion to be shown to Timothy Tymoshenko, 16, who fled the war in Ukraine without his parents. He is living with his 17-year-old brother, Yurii, in what was once a private palace for the prince-bishop of Wrocław in Piotrowice Nyskie, a tiny Polish village near the Czech border.

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