'They just want to be safe': Ukrainian who fled war volunteers at new help centre for refugees

'They just want to be safe': Ukrainian who fled war volunteers at new help centre for refugees

Volunteer Ukrainian interpreter Galyna Valvenkina at the centre in Belfast (Liam McBurney/PA)

A Ukrainian woman who fled the war has said she felt duty-bound to volunteer at a new advice centre for refugees arriving in Northern Ireland.

Galyna Valvenkina left her home in Zhytomyr, a city about 80 miles west of the capital Kyiv, 10 days after the Russian invasion.

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