A mum says she ordered a £4,500 taxi to Ukraine from Salford to 'help' after 'one too many double pink gins and shots of Sambuca'. And was only saved by having 'insufficient funds'.
28.02.2022 - 18:01 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A British couple have become trapped in Ukraine after going over to see a surrogate mother who gave birth to twins they waited 13 years for.
Manisha and Metaish Parmar described their desperate situation, which should have been a dream come meeting their new babies, as a “living nightmare”.
The pair flew over to the Eastern European country three weeks ago after the surrogate mother welcomed the newborns, the Mirror reports.
However they are now unable to get back home amid the ongoing Russian invasion and are living in fear with their babies, and Mr Parmar’s parents.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Mrs Parmar explained: “Things are not good, we can hear explosions going off.
"It's absolutely traumatising, devastating.
"We're absolutely worried, we don't know what to do. We can't go anywhere, we're just stranded and stuck in Kyiv."
Whilst the family are safe in an apartment, everytime air raid sirens go off they are forced to head for safety in a bomb shelter.
She added: "We thought we would come here, see our newborns being born and have the best moments of our lives - 13 years we've been waiting for this moment.
"And now we're just living this absolute nightmare and we just want to get out."
To make matters worse, to get out, the British Embassy is insisting that they drive 14 hours through a warzone to collect documents to leave.
This is because what the foreign office said is a limited capability to help British nationals in the country.
Talking to Good Morning Britain today, Mrs Parmar said: “In a situation like this, you’d think they’d understand right? And send the emergency travel document electronically in this crisis. But no.”
The British embassy has issued them emergency travel documents, but they are in the western
A mum says she ordered a £4,500 taxi to Ukraine from Salford to 'help' after 'one too many double pink gins and shots of Sambuca'. And was only saved by having 'insufficient funds'.
Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorBenjamin Hall, the Fox News Channel correspondent who was injured while covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for the Fox Corp.-owned network, has managed to get out of the country, according to a memo from Suzanne Scott, Fox News Media’s CEO, issued Wednesday.“Ben is alert and in good spirits. He is being treated with the best possible care in the world and we are in close contact with his wife and family,” Scott said in the note to staffers.Fox News has deployed a handful of correspondents around the country, including Trey Yingst and Steve Harrigan.Hall had been reporting in Horenka, outside of Kyiv, Ukraine, with cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and journalist Oleksandra “Sasha” Kuvshynova when their vehicle came under fire.
Ukraine when the vehicle he was traveling in outside of Kyiv with another reporter was struck by incoming fire, the network said on Tuesday.The slain videographer, Pierre Zakrzewski, 55, had covered conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria for Fox, according to a memo sent to the network's employees.“His passion and talent as a journalist were unmatched,” Suzanne Scott, CEO of Fox News Media, said in the memo.Reporter Benjamin Hall has been hospitalized since Monday, when their vehicle was hit in Horenka, the network said.Zakrzewski, who was based in London, was the second journalist killed in Ukraine in two days. Brent Renaud, a documentary filmmaker and another veteran of covering war zones, died Sunday after Russian forces opened fire on his vehicle.Scott said of Zakrzewski: “His talents were vast and there wasn't a role that he didn't jump in to help with in the field — from photographer to engineer to editor to producer — and he did it all under immense pressure with tremendous skill.”Last year, Zakrzewski played a key role in getting Fox's freelancers and their families out of Afghanistan after the U.S.
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