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Evening Standard
Politics
Nick Lester

Officials to explore housing Ukrainian refugees in Roman Abramovich properties

Using properties owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich to house Ukrainian refugees will be looked at by officials, a foreign office minister has said.

Responding to the proposal at Westminster, Labour frontbencher Baroness Chapman of Darlington said it was “an interesting idea” and committed to take it back to her department for it to be explored by civil servants.

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