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Miriam Burrell

‘There was a lot of shooting..it was like a movie’: Ukrainian mum tells how she fled war to build new life in London

A Ukrainian mother who found refuge in London has told how her life changed forever as she and her young daughter fled Vladimir Putin’s invasion one year ago.

Viktoriia Shchielko screamed at her daughter Gold, nine, to duck for cover inside their car as Russian fighters parachuted into their home city of Kyiv.

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