'Treated like a servant, threatened with deportation': Ukrainian woman's host family experience

Refugees from Ukraine wait at a railway station in Przemysl, Poland. A Ukrainian woman has warned other refugees to use only official channels when sourcing accommodation in Ireland after a host family “exploited” her. Picture: Sergei Grits/AP

A Ukrainian woman has warned other refugees to use only official channels when sourcing accommodation in Ireland after a host family “exploited” her and threatened to have her deported after witnessing a violent row in their home.

The warning comes as the Irish Red Cross said it is carrying out a significant body of work in conjunction with other agencies to assess almost 23,000 applications it has received to help to house Ukrainians in Ireland.