When Kateryna Gorodnycha set off driving for the UK from her home town in Ukraine, she still didn't have her UK visa. Driving 1,800 miles from Kyiv, through Poland and into Germany before arriving at Calais, Kateryna wasn't certain she and her 13-year-old son Timur and their two cats would be able to make it.
The day she left with her life packed into her car was the day the Russian missiles started falling on her hometown. She doesn't regret taking the risk in the slightest.
Settled in her new home in Pendoylan in Vale of Glamorgan, Kateryna is one of the "lucky" ones, she says. She chose the UK simply because of the language - she speaks Ukrainian, Russian and English - and wanted to find refuge where she could speak and understand the language.
