Fluent Irish speaker settled in East Cork but 'shattered' after fleeing Ukraine

Nadia Dobrianska and her family had to make the heartbreaking decision to flee their home in Kyiv three weeks ago

Nadia Dobrianska at her host home in East Cork. 

Nadia Dobrianska, a fluent Irish speaker, and her family were forced to make the heartbreaking decision to flee their home of Kyiv in Ukraine three weeks ago as they heard the first blasts of the Russian invasion.

Now settled with a host family in east Cork, Ms Dobrianska said she is “shattered” physically and emotionally from their journey to Ireland, but that the support they have received from Irish people has been “unbelievable”: