Parents of Ukrainian-Irish woman helping refugees in makeshift rescue centre

Nataliya O’Connor from Ukraine who lives in Dublin, with her parents Vasyl and Anastasia Rusal, who run a makeshift rescue centre in west Ukraine.Picture supplied by Nataliya O’Connor.

A Ukrainian woman living in Ireland has made a plea for donations after her parents turned their rehabilitation centre into a makeshift refuge shelter in western Ukraine.

Nataliya O’Connor said her home city of Chernivtsy is overflowing with refugees, many of whom are children and women, travelling from Kyiv and eastern cities amid the Russian invasion.