"Everything is terrible. My mom broke the hip and this is implicated for us. Children [have spent] four days in the cellar. Yesterday we were without electricity and water. Today, thank God, we have connections and water."
That is the heart-breaking text message sent from a woman in Ukraine to her friend Gerrie Bayley in Prestatyn.
And what makes this text message even more difficult to read for Gerrie is the feeling that those youngsters in the cellar may as well be her own children - such is the close bond she feels with them.
