Billy Kelleher: 'Our colleagues in Ukraine asked us to visit ... we needed to look them in the eye'

Europe must meet this tsunami head on and look after these refugees with dignity and respect

Billy Kelleher MEP and Senator Timmy Dooley speak with Andriy Sadovy, Mayor of Lviv, and colleague.

Crossing the EU frontier, and entering an active war-zone is something I never thought I would be doing. 

I’ve a wife and three children living at home in Cork but seeing the plight of the Ukrainian people over the last 12 days convinced me that I needed to see the impact of the conflict and hear their concerns first hand.