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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Nigel Nelson

Ukraine MP says Priti Patel promised refugee visas in 3 days - and she's waited 3 weeks

A Ukrainian MP says Home Secretary Priti Patel personally promised her visas for refugees in three days - and she is still waiting three weeks later.

Lesia Vasylenko, 35, who took up arms to fight the Russians, is trying to get 30 families who fled to Poland or are still stranded in western Ukraine into Britain where new homes are waiting for them.

But in an exclusive interview with the Sunday Mirror she said: “Only one family has received visas so far. I feel let down by the lack of coordination.

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