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'I need to get daughter out of Ukraine for cancer meds - but her dad can't come'

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A desperate mum has been forced to flee Ukraine with her cancer-stricken daughter so she can have access to life-saving medication.

Kseniya Pobedimka's three-year-old Polina has neuroblastoma - a rare type of childhood cancer. When bombing started in Ukraine's second city, Kharkiv, last week, the family knew they had to leave.

Pharmacies were closing and Kseniya described feeling the heat from shelling in their home. After four days on the run, Kseniya and her children reached Poland, where they received a warm welcome from a Polish host family.

But Polina's father, like other men of military age, was unable to cross the border out of Ukraine. Kseniya said Polina keeps asking where her daddy is and when they can go home.

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