'Ireland is my home now': Meet the Ukrainian children who found refuge from the war in Cork

Monday marks three years since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Some of the children who fled the war with their families tell Sarah Horgan about their harrowing journeys to reach the safety of Cork City

Alina Hrebneva, with her daughters Nadya, 6, and Polina, 12, at the Cork Deaf Association, where Alina works. Picture: Chani Anderson

Polina Hrebneva’s rainy day fund helped her family be among the many thousands who have fled war torn Ukraine over the last three years.

She, like so many others, have found safety and chance once again to be a child now they are here.