A North Tyneside woman collecting humanitarian aid to send back to her beleaguered Ukrainian homeland has likened Russian President Vladimir Putin to Hitler.
Alina Kanishchuk, who runs the Sushi Yammi Japanese restaurant in North Shields with her husband, Jon Kazakrv, has around 30 relatives trapped in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, some of whom have taken up arms in the wake of last week’s Russian invasion.
Alina, Jon, and father-in-law Yuri Kazakrv, who is currently stranded in the UK as Putin’s troops continue to pound Kyiv with airstrikes, have barely slept since Russia invaded its neighbour on February 24.
