New York City with her new dog. The 43-year-old Dawson's Creek actress sported a mustard boxy shirt and a pair of blue straight leg jeans on Tuesday And she continued wearing a mask as she stood out from the crowd in her bold look.
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For almost 70 years St Mary's Catholic church in Cheetham Hill has been at the heart of Ukrainian life in Manchester.
And on Thursday morning, just hours after Russian launched its invasion, it was where the community came together on one of their darkest days.
Amid shock, anger and grief, long-established families born and raised here stood side-by-side with newer arrivals to our city.
All had just one thing on their mind.
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In the packed church friends shared news of relatives and anxiously hunched over mobile phones desperate for the latest updates on the invasion.
Tears were shed as the sombre 90 minute-long Mass was brought to a close with a defiant rendition of the Ukrainian national anthem, 'Ukraine Has Not Yet Perished'.
Genia Mandzij, chair of the Manchester branch of the Ukrainian Women of Great Britain, was among those who addressed the gathering.
Her story is typical of many first generation Ukrainian immigrants in Greater Manchester.
She was born in Rochdale in 1952 after her parents arrived in the UK as refugees following the Second World War.
Aged just 15 her mum was taken by the Nazis while she worked in a field near her home in Ivano-Frankivsk, in Western Ukraine and forced to work in a German factory that canned food for the troops, while her dad was conscripted into the Polish army.
They later met in Preston, married and moved to Spotland in Rochdale where they brought up a family.
Growing up Genia, 69, says she always felt '100 per cent British and 100 per cent Ukrainian'.
"I went to Ukrainian church, Ukrainian youth groups, but I went to English school and lived an English life," she said.
"I never felt as though there no children like me, there were always others around with a similar
New York City with her new dog. The 43-year-old Dawson's Creek actress sported a mustard boxy shirt and a pair of blue straight leg jeans on Tuesday And she continued wearing a mask as she stood out from the crowd in her bold look.
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