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Shaun Keenan

'We will stay': The Derry missionaries determined to stay and help people of Ukraine despite Russian invasion

A man from Co Derry who is a missionary with his wife in Ukraine has said that they never thought about fleeing the country despite Russia's invasion of the country.

Timothy and Rhoda Sloan, who used to live in Garavgh, have been based in the town of Lutsk for the past two decades.

Lutsk is around 147km from the Belarusian border and it's understood to have been one of the areas to be attacked by Russian forces since the invasion began last week.

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