Two sisters from Ukraine have said it is a "miracle" that they have been welcomed into a new home, after a family from Yorkshire stepped forward to help. YorkshireLive reports Kateryna and Daryna, who both lived in Kyiv, fled the war soon after Russia ordered the invasion of Ukraine at the end of February.
Kateryna, 28, had to walk out of Kyiv as Russian troops advanced, while 32-year-old Daryna and her four-year-old son Yuroslav were able to catch a bus out of their small town near the capital city. They have since been stranded in Lublin, a Polish city near the Ukrainian border, but a Yorkshire family has stepped forward to help them.
Kateryna and Daryna will soon board a train across Europe and travel to Ilkley to move in with their host family. "It was so hard (to leave)," said Kateryna. "I walked, it took a full day to leave and my sister left with her son by bus."
