Rowlands Gill couple Slava and Oleg Shumihin have always kept in close contact with their families in the Ukraine - but never as much as over the past few days.
For as the Russian invasion reaches its sixth day, their loved ones are never far from their minds as they make sense of the crisis their home country is facing and try to do what they can to help.
And although Slava, 36, and Oleg, 40, are separated from their families by nearly 2,000 miles, they are collecting goods to help the Ukrainian people caught up in the horror, at their families' request.