Ayr shop owner in tears every day as family in Ukraine hide in underground bunker fearing for lives

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An emotional Ayr shop owner has told how her family are hiding in an underground bunker fearing for their lives in Ukraine.Olga Stewart (Milchenko) has been crying and praying for her parents, sister and brother-in-law and their five-year-old daughter who narrowly escaped an undetonated bomb on Wednesday.The owner of Olga’s Alterations in Newmarket Street originally from the city of Sumy in Ukraine says her family are too afraid to go outside — as an onslaught of explosions shake the ground above their tiny shelter near the capital Kyiv.An exhausted Olga, 51, told Ayrshire Live: “I cry every day, my family have no escape, they are stuck in Ukraine.

There is no way out for them.“I speak to them every morning, my mum and sister, they can’t move at all — they can’t even go outside, it's not safe enough.“There is no internet connection so I have to phone every day.“My sister is so scared, she fears she and her family will be found and killed.“They have bombs going off near them, the ground shakes all the time and they are constantly panicking.”Olga’s sister Lyudmila, 46, and brother-in-law, Krill, 42, and their daughter Margo, 5, are trapped in a freezing underground shelter that is close by to their home in Kyiv which they had to flee last week as war broke out.Their son Vlad, 28, is living in an underground car park in the capital city being rocked by the Russian siege.Meanwhile Olga’s mum Maria, 73, has to dive into her bath to take cover amidst intense gunfire and shelling, while her dad Edward, 74, is hiding in a cellar in Sumy close to the Russian border.Olga has revealed the horrific conditions her sister and their young family are stuck in.The petrified parents are trying to keep their child safe in an underground