Niamh Griffin: ‘Nobody thinks it will stop soon’

As up to 100,000 people are expected to cross the Moldovan border if Odesa is targeted more heavily, the work to support arriving refugees continues

The Melnyck family from Uman, Ukraine, with friends from Mykoloiav and other cities, and Radnosti centre director and pastor Alexei Burcovschii.

“We just want to go home,” the woman explained but instead she was sitting at a dusty border crossing with her two daughters, a cat, and a French bulldog. Her husband is back in Ukraine.

On Wednesday, Anastasyia, 40, arrived at the Palanca border crossing between Moldova and her home in Odesa with daughters Daria, 13, and Sophie, 9.