The quiet surroundings of Killin may feel like the ideal place to escape the horrors of a brutal invasion.
But for Alla Tupchiy-Kochetova, her time in the Stirlingshire countryside is an unexpected detour in a year that has seen her and her family lose everything in the Ukraine conflict which started just over a year ago.
On February 24, their lives in the coastal city of Mariupol were turned upside down as Russian shells shook the windows and walls of their home at 4.30am - and then the first shell hit the city itself later that afternoon.