A North East man who fled Kyiv with his family says his poorly Ukrainian wife is in distress because her beloved Pomeranian is still in UK quarantine after seven weeks.
Mike Haley has been housed back in Newcastle with his wife Alla, 51, and her mother Valentyna, 81, help from a charity after fleeing the war-ridden capital. But their precious pet Archie has been held 240 miles away in Aberdeen since early April.
And now Mr Haley, 61, is even considering returning to Ukraine with his wife and her mother, so Archie will be deported with them. It's a desperate consideration for Mr Haley, who witnessed Russian infiltrators murder his friend in the days before the family fled the Ukrainian capital.
