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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Dave Higgens

Ukraine visa scheme is ‘shambolic’ says engineer after his family flee to UK

PA Wire

A Ukrainian engineer who has helped dozens of refugees get to the UK after his own close family made it out of under-fire Mariupol and Kharkiv says the system remains “shambolic” and is getting worse.

Anton Ievsiushkin, 38, contrasted the “amazing” help his sister, niece, mother and grandmother have had from the British public with the failing bureaucracy he says had been put in their way by a Government which he believes wants to discourage refugees from applying.

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