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Norman Silvester

Ukrainian pensioners who fled 2000 miles to Scotland fear home is gone forever

An elderly Ukrainian couple who fled more than 2000 miles to safety in Scotland fear nothing will be left of their home if they ever get to return.

Viacheslav Malyna, 83, and Zhanna Malyna, 81, started a horror journey from their flat in the battered city of Kharkiv in north-east Ukraine after Russian shelling began at the end of February.

They managed to flee to Hungary before eventually arriving in Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire, where daughter Anna White lives with her husband Geoff.

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