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Scot prepares to flee Ukraine with pregnant wife amid fears Russia will invade within days
01.02.2022 - 08:13 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Thousands of Brits are preparing to flee Ukraine amid fears Russia will invade within days.
Many are afraid of being stranded in the capital Kyiv if Kremlin tanks imposed a stranglehold on the city.
It is believed there are up to 6000 British expats in Ukraine.
Most plan to flee by plane but if the airport is blitzed, they will drive west towards Poland to escape the fighting.
Ken Stewart, 54, originally from Edinburgh, faces a particularly nail-biting few days as his Ukrainian wife Tetiana, 36, is heavily pregnant.
She is due soon and is booked in to recover at a private hospital near their home 35 miles outside Kyiv, which is in Vladimir Putin’s line of fire.
They live with daughter Yaryna, three, in quiet village Bucha, north west of the capital, towards Belarus.
If Russian tanks attack – with as many as 80,000 Moscow and Belarusian troops gathered there already – Ken would flee with his family.
The IT executive, who moved to Ukraine 15 years ago, said: “We are right in the area where they will be. If they roll into my village, it will make me very angry.
"Our plan is to head west where it will be safer, with no checkpoints.”
Expats have been told to register with the British embassy, which has already sent half of its staff home.
Ken took part in the 2014 Maidan protests and was next to someone who was shot dead by suspected undercover police.
He said: “I was there when people were killed. It [the protests] was more about being independent from Russia than being more joined to Europe.”
As they stockpile food and fill cars with jerrycans full of petrol, many Brits here face a race against time to escape.
Peter Dickinson, 45, is originally from Amersham, Buckinghamshire, but has lived in Kyiv for the past 20 years, building a
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