Ukrainian child needing urgent bone marrow transplant arrives in Cork

Yana, Serhiy and Leonid Shapoval, 5, with Cork South-West TD Michael Collins on their arrival at Dublin Airport from Ukraine.

A massive effort is under way to help a Ukrainian child with leukaemia who was forced to flee war-torn Kyiv with his family just days before he was due to undergo a life-saving bone marrow transplant.

Leonid Shapoval, aged five, and his traumatised family were being comforted by relatives in Ballydehob in West Cork as arrangements were being made to ensure he gets urgent medical treatment.