They were forced to leave their homes in Ukraine as Russian troops prepared to invade. Now Manchester University graduates who moved to the Eastern European country are desperately trying to help the loved ones they left behind.
Jacob Williams, 28, moved to the Ukraine in 2019 after falling in love with a Ukraine woman while visiting friend and fellow graduate John Green, who was living and working there.
Now the pair have joined forces with friend Lewis Edwards to do all they can to support people in need during the war. How many have died in Ukraine?
The estimated death toll of soldiers and civilians so far John, 26, from Hampshire, who studied History and Russian at Manchester University, says he and girlfriend Yulia Scherbyna, 23, took heed of government advice and left Ukraine on February 16, before the war broke.
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