Two families in Nottingham can finally breathe a sigh of relief after a 35-week pregnant Ukrainian mum and child were given green light to come to the UK. Viktoriia Levenets and her eight-year-old daughter Anastassiia Shpak are two of the millions of refugees who have fled their home country amid the "barbaric" Russian invasion.
Just a week after the war was declared in Ukraine, the soon-to-be mum had to make a difficult decision. Mrs Levenets left her home town with her daughter in a desperate attempt to save her life.
But her brave husband Oleg Shpak has chosen to remain and fight for his country. The family that were once happily together living in Ovidiopol, near Odessa where the first Russian airstrikes occured, has been torn apart.
