A year on from war, how Greater Manchester wrapped its arms around Ukraine and her people
In the early hours, the first wave of Russian president Vladimir Putin's barbaric invasion of peaceful Ukraine saw air strikes hit major cities and military bases in the country, as desperate civilians piled into trains and cars to flee to wherever they could.
Manchester's central library was lit up in the blue and yellow colours of the Ukrainian flag. As darkness fell in the city centre, they sang together the Ukrainian national anthem, all thoughts remaining firmly with loved-ones at home. Yaroslaw Tymchyshyn, chairman of the Bolton branch of the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain, told how he feared for the worst as he and others huddled around mobile phones making calls and sending text messages that weren't responded to.
At St Mary's Ukrainian Catholic Church on Cheetham Hill Road in Manchester, a focal point of the community for more than 70 years, children wore crowns made from flowers at morning mass as the congregation prayed for, and showed their support for, relatives and the people of Ukraine. Just months after leaving war-torn Ukraine the family-of-five, Munadil Muhsin, his wife Amir, children Alina and Ariana and Amir's mother, Halyna Hurska, were welcomed into Karen Hopwood and Jim Eynon's home under the scheme.
Seven-year-old Elijah and his family left for Manchester early last year without any of their belongings. Footballer Zinchenko invited a 10-year-old Ukrainian boy into training with Manchester City; a nine-year-old refugee left so traumatised by the invasion that she didn't speak for more than a month found life again thanks to a family living in Timperley who took her family in; and a journalist who fled Kiev told of her gruelling journey to Stockport and of her unending gratitude to the UK and its people.
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