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Tom Eden

Ukraine academic in Glasgow hits out at Home Office 'resistance' to accepting refugees

The Home Office's "resistance" to accepting people from Ukraine and administrative hurdles are making fleeing families "suffer even more", a Ukrainian volunteer in Scotland has warned.

Yevgen Gorash who runs the Ukrainian community support group in Glasgow said it was a "major disappointment" that it remains so difficult for refugees to come to the United Kingdom.

A research fellow in mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Strathclyde, Mr Gorash spoke with Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, at the Ukrainian Club in Edinburgh about the struggles that people face getting visas and lawfully entering the UK.

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