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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Lizzy Buchan

UK issues just 760 visas as Tory says Zelenksy wants refugees to stay near Ukraine

Just 760 visas have been granted to desperate Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion - despite 22,000 applications, a top Tory has admitted.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps defended the UK's record in welcoming refugees from the brutal conflict amid mounting criticism that the scheme is too slow.

Mr Shapps insisted that Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky had told the UK that he wants his people not to travel too far from their homeland so they can return.

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