A young teenager, who was forced to seek refuge with his family in Edinburgh following the illegal invasion of Ukraine by Russia, has been touted as a potential tennis star after excelling in local and national competitions.
Arsenii Opryshko, 13, used to live in Kharkiv, a region that Russia has attempted to annex into their Federation, was on holiday with his family in Egypt when the war broke out. Due to Ukraine shutting off their airspace after the invasion, Arsenii and his parents, Vadym and Olga, found themselves stranded with just holiday clothes in a suitcase.
Guests at the hotel they were staying at realised that the family was in a particularly precarious position and managed to club together for the Ukrainians to be able to travel back and stay with a German family they had met in Egypt.
