The brave mum of Strictly star Oksana Platero has told of her horrific ordeal fleeing her home in Ukraine.
When a shell hit Inna Dmytrenko’s 10-year-old son Kirill’s school and the air strikes intensified in Kharkiv, she made the heartbreaking decision to leave on March 2, with Kirill and her vulnerable niece Elena, 30.
Inna, 53, said: “The explosions became more and more frequent, and Oksana called me and said, ‘Mum you must leave now’.