Five weeks ago, as Russian forces advanced into Ukraine, Olena Vasylchenko and her two children fled their home in the town of Kramatorsk. They left everything behind even her husband Valerie. They have travelled more than 3,000 miles and now, finally, they have found a safe haven in Aberystwyth.
A dinner has been held, by Syrian refugees who came to Newtown fleeing a civil war, to raise vital funds for a humanitarian mission to help Ukrainian refugees.