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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Luke Harding in Lviv

Put Ukrainian refugees in oligarchs’ London houses, Lviv mayor says

Andriy Sadovyi pictured last month in Lviv.
‘Putin will go down in history side by side with Hitler and other war criminals.’ Andriy Sadovyi, pictured last month in Lviv. Photograph: Matthias Williams/Reuters

The mayor of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv has called on Boris Johnson to seize the villas of Russian oligarchs living in London and to use them to accommodate Ukrainian refugees fleeing Vladimir Putin’s invasion and military onslaught.

In an interview with the Guardian, Andriy Sadovyi said the UK and other Nato member countries had to establish an immediate no-fly zone over Ukraine in order to save “millions of lives”.

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