It’s been 65 days since Russia invaded Ukraine, with a brutal war raging across much of the country.
And, while the latest update from Mariupol might not be the top story on every nightly news bulletin, there’s a group of Manchester women who are working hard to keep up the fight. They’re ferrying donations to the conflict, organising Saturday schools for children to keep their language alive, and running a museum celebrating their heritage.
It all takes place at the Ukrainian Cultural Centre in Cheetham Hill. Today, it’s packed out with donations — just as volunteers have organised another lorry load of supplies to go to orphanages in Odessa, which now have twice the amount of children as they did before Putin’s invasion.
