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Vazha Tavberidze & Andy Lines

Terrified Brit, 83, spends 10 days locked in Ukraine bomb shelter with pet poodle

A terrified British pensioner told the Mirror how he spent ten days locked in the basement of his house in Ukraine - with his pet dog - as Russian bombs rained down on him.

OAP Douglas Homer, 83, was living in the war-torn city of Kharkiv when the Russians invaded.

He took to his cellar, which acted as a bomb shelter, with his one-year-old pet poodle Jeffrey.

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