This is the moment late at night that vitaly shevchenko knew his mother alla and his auntie irina were truly safe. after a long, 35 hour, 2000 mile journey to the uk, everyone was exhausted. when i went to talk to them over the next day, vitaly revealed that with war raging and the sisters trapped in the east of ukraine, he didn t know if they d ever get out alive. i have to be honest, it s a war out there. and there were moments when i thought, am i ever going to see them again? because when my mother told me that the fighting was getting closer, the explosions and flashes in the sky, the front lines the front lines are literally
An hour s drive away from her house. i thought, well, it s difficult to extract them from that situation. the fighting is coming nearer, there are reports of explosions and shelling in different parts of ukraine. will i ever see them again? hearing about his desperate plight, a bbc breakfast viewer, and separately, a listener to bbc podcast ukrainecast, offered to help. ukrainian student anastasia arranged for an ambulance to take irina, who can t speak or sit up after having two strokes, and alla, from their home in zaporizhzhia in the east of ukraine to the rest in the east of ukraine to the west of the country. at the ukraine poland border, richard o doherty from gloucestershire stepped in to drive them through five countries, all the way to reading. why not? you know, it s, i m there, i ve got the time, i ve got the van. and loads of donations flowing in,
Because when my mother told me that the fighting was getting closer, there were explosions and flashes in the sky, the front lines are literally an hour s drive away from her house. i thought, well, it s difficult to extract them from that situation. the fighting s coming nearer, there are reports of explosions and shelling in different parts of ukraine. will i ever see them again? hearing about his desperate plight, a bbc breakfast viewer, and separately, a listener to bbc podcast ukrainecast, offered to help. ukrainian student anastasia arranged for an ambulance to take irina, who can t speak or sit up after having two strokes, and alla, from their home in zaporizhzhia
Told the bbc how worried he was for his elderly mother and severely disabled aunt, who were stuck in eastern ukraine. they ve now arrived safely in the uk and victoria derbyshire went to meet them. this is the moment late at night that vitaly shevchenko knew his mother alla and his auntie irina were truly safe. after a long, 35 hour, 2000 mile journey to the uk, everyone was exhausted. when i went to talk to them all the next day, vitaly revealed that with war raging and the sisters trapped in the east of ukraine, he didn t know if they d ever get out alive. i have to be honest, because it s a war out there. and there were moments when i thought, am i ever going to see them again?