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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Aleksandar Vasovic and Fatos Bytyci

Russian hotel owner shelters Ukrainian refugees in Serbia

Mikhail Golubtsov, a Russian-born former construction engineer who accommodates Ukrainian refugees in his hotel, serves his Ukrainian guests in the village of Batocina, Serbia March 25, 2022. Picture taken March 25, 2022. REUTERS/Fatos Bytyci

Russian hotel owner Mikhail Golubtsov says it was partly the shame he feels over Russia's invasion of Ukraine that persuaded him and his family to take in Ukrainians fleeing the fighting - 34 so far, and counting.

The Russian former construction engineer left his home country in 2014 over Moscow's "unacceptable" annexation of Crimea, and now runs a modest but cosy hotel in the green hills of central Serbia.

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