All eyes will be on the skies as Greater Manchester prepares for a four-day bank holiday bonanza to mark the Queen's Jubilee weekend.
11.05.2022 - 08:59 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A nine-year-old Ukrainian refugee was so traumatised by war that she didn't speak for more than a month. Milana Pankevych was stunned into silence for almost five weeks after Russia invaded her homeland.
But now the brave little girl is now living along with her 17-year-old brother Artem and mother Olena by a Trafford couple who were inspired by their family's own World War II ordeal to welcome two refugee families. Andy Gilbride and his wife Grazyna, both 56, are hosting six Ukrainian refugees in their home in Timperley and previously offered their North Wales home to Syrian refugees.
With the hostile Russian invasion of Ukraine blazing on, and more and more families fleeing the conflict, Trafford is hosting more refugees than anywhere else in Greater Manchester, with 199 visas issued for the borough through the Government’s Homes for Ukraine scheme by May 3.
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Speaking to the M.E.N, Andy said: "At first [the family] were worried about getting all six of them over. They said originally the 17-year-old boy might have to stay behind – because 'he’d lived longer than his sister' and the rule about fighting men."
Artem, was almost left behind after the Ukrainian government issued a ruling that all men must stay in the country to fight. He is still traumatised and doesn’t want to be around people.
"The little girl didn't speak," Andy said, referring to Milana. "She's so sweet, she even bought a squeaky rubber chicken on her journey through Europe for our dog, Owen. I said to them, just wait until she gets here, she’ll start talking as soon as she sees the dog."
Andy and Grazyna have two grown up daughters who live in places of their own now, and one
All eyes will be on the skies as Greater Manchester prepares for a four-day bank holiday bonanza to mark the Queen's Jubilee weekend.
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