Katerina Mozhna and her four-year-old son Maxim are now safe, having fled to Romania from Ukraine, funded with help from generous Mail on Sunday readers.
The unprecedented scale of the exodus from Ukraine leaves Europe facing the largest crisis of its kind since the end of the Second World War, Western officials said last night.
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