A frustrated TV presenter reporting from Ukraine confronted the UK's Deputy Prime Minister over the government's inaction in helping war refugees as sirens sounded behind him.
Sky News journalist Mark Austin asked Dominic Raab “why are we not doing more?” as he questioned how a 75-year-old woman taking cover in a Kyiv bomb shelter couldn't get to her son in Britain, according to the Mirror.
As a warning of an incoming Russian strike on the capital went off in the background, the Conservative MP replied: “I can’t comment on every potential hypothetical case. “Of course we understand the difficulties of the practical situation on the ground.
That’s common to most conflict zones.“We’ll work with all our international partners and the UN to try to resolve that and make sure we continue this tradition of offering safe haven to those fleeing persecution.”Mr Raab, whose family fled the Holocaust, insisted he understood the urgency of the situation as the “son of a refugee myself”.
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