translation: we were frightened, yes. - because was terrifying and all the air raid sirens, but our city didn t have any bombings, thank god. if we stayed there, no one knows what the end of the story would be. vita, 0ndrej and their three year old son nazar escaped from ukraine and managed to get as far as france. but then they were stuck. struggling to complete the paperwork they would need to get to the uk. one night me and heather decided right, i ll fly over because i knew they were going to have difficulties travelling around paris and they don t speak english. thanks to mark, they were soon on their way to calais. heather found someone to host them in a house nearby in rugby. but she s been shocked by how hard it has been to get vita simple things like a bank account and national insurance number. just trying to help her set up a life has been much harder than i thought.
and she has a three year old, so we didn t want him to see the war experience anything negative. the two families became close during the pregnancy and so by the time sophie arrived in january, they were expecting to meet again, someday. but then the war broke out and vita was messaging them from a bomb shelter. the war is a terrible thing, so if we can just help one family, you know, it s good. at first vita and 0ndrej didn t want to leave. it was heather who persuaded them. translation: we were frightened, yes. - because war is terrifying, and all the air raid sirens, but our city didn t have any bombings, thank god. if we stayed there, no one knows what the end of the story would be. vita, 0ndrej and their
who saved heather from the grief of infertility. heather rescued vita from the war in ukraine. she means a lot to us. and we just couldn t imagine anything bad happening to her. and she has a three year old, so we didn t want him to see the war experience anything negative. the two families became close during the pregnancy and so by the time sophie arrived in january, they were expecting to meet again, someday. but then the war broke out and vita was messaging them from a bomb shelter. the war is a terrible thing, so if we can just help one family, you know, it s good. at first vita and 0ndrej didn t want to leave. it was heather who persuaded them. translation: we were frightened, yes. - because was terrifying and all the air raid sirens, but our city didn t have any bombings, thank god.
vita lysenko and heather easton have a very special friendship, born of adversity. vita is the surrogate who said heather from who saved heather from the grief of infertility. heather rescued vita from the war in ukraine. she means a lot to us. and we just couldn t imagine anything bad happening to her. and she has a three year old, so we didn t want him to see the war experience anything negative. the two families became close during the pregnancy and so by the time sophie arrived in january, they were expecting to meet again, someday. but then the war broke out and vita was messaging them from a bomb shelter. the war is a terrible thing, so if we can just help one family, you know, it s good. at first vita and 0ndrej didn t want to leave. it was heather who persuaded them.
if we stayed there, no one knows what the end of the story would be. vita, 0ndrej and their three year old son nazar escaped from ukraine and managed to get as far as france. but then they were stuck. struggling to complete the paperwork they would need to get to the uk. one night me and heather decided right, i ll fly over to paris to help them. because i knew they were going to have difficulties travelling around paris and they don t speak english. thanks to mark, they were soon on their way to calais. heather found someone to host them in a house nearby in rugby. but she s been shocked by how hard it has been to get vita simple things like a bank account and national insurance number. just trying to help her set up a life has been much harder than i thought. everything is two steps forward, one step back. vita says that however well looked after she is here, her desire to go home gets stronger by the day.