A mum pregnant with twins has spoken of her dreams of seeing her husband again after the war in Ukraine split her family apart. Elena Malenko fled from Kyiv to stay with relatives in the UK when war broke out.
Her husband Grygorii is a member of Kyiv City Council, placing the family "on the Russian hitlist". The former diplomat and language teacher had started packing in December after seeing pictures of Russian troops gathering at the border.
And they were ready to flee the next day when a Russian missile fell on a neighbouring house. The city was full of people heading to railway stations as the family made their way west, towards the safety of the Polish border.
