For wheelchair user Vitaly, getting to safety came with added challenges – especially since he refused to leave his cat behind. Vitaly, his fiancee Valentyna, her mother Svitlana and their cat Timosha come from the city of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine. Humanitarian groups helped them to move to Kyiv, where they spent two days, before moving to Lviv in western Ukraine. Millions of refugees, mostly women and children, have now fled Ukraine and are being given temporary new homes in countries across Europe. The Mail Force Ukraine Appeal was launched a month ago and has raised £9.1million.

Source: Daily Mail March 30, 2022 04:42 UTC