A little girl has received an early birthday present after she was reunited with her Ukrainian father whom she has not seen since April when she and her mother fled the war to take up shelter in Ireland.
Sofiia Badrak, who is due to turn six on Saturday, rushed in to the arms of her father, Stanislav, at Brook Lodge National School in Glanmire, Co Cork after he surprised her by showing up at her classroom at lunchtime today.
Stanislav and his wife Yuliia are musicians. Yuliia was employed by the National Orchestra of Ukraine prior to the war whilst Stanislav is a singer, pianist and composer with the National Academic Choir of Ukraine.
