As they gathered emotionally under dazzling lights, the women and children clustered on stage knew back home in the towns and cities they have been forced to leave, their loved ones remaining would be sitting in darkness.
These 15 refugees, fiercely patriotic in Ukrainian colours and traditional dress on stage at London’s Grosvenor House on Monday night, could picture them, coping with the cold, the blackouts, consequences of new Russian attacks on Ukraine ’s infrastructure. They knew fears would be looming large in the inkinesss of night.
Yet here they were, at the Daily Mirror Pride of Britain Awards, with TSB.
