A Ukrainian mother and daughter who escaped from their home close to a frontline of the conflict with Russia have been forced to return there due to delays in processing their UK visa applications.
Olha Kachurenko, 43, a nurse and laboratory worker, and her 13-year-old daughter Marharyta fled their home in the southern city of Mykolaiv, not far from Russian-occupied Kherson, on 18 March, a few weeks after the war started.
