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Ukrainian woman living in Scotland shares anguish as parents run low on vital medication
14.03.2022 - 13:31 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A Ukrainian woman living in Scotland has shared her anguish as her parents are running low on vital medication.
Aid worker Zhenya Dove's parents live in Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine which has been occupied by Russia.
While being interviewed by Sky News on her efforts to free people from the country, she described the situation as "desperate."
Zhenya said her family and friends have run out of vital medical supplies, including thyroid, heart and blood thinning medications.
According to Edinburgh Live, the 33-year-old said: "They are blocking all humanitarian aid. My parents and a lot of my friends have run out of medicine.
"I have their list, and I am trying to source it everywhere, but there is just no way to get it across.
"Every day I just see the pleas for heart medication, for thyroid medication, blood thinners, baby products, they just can't get it.
"The aid that we collect, we can't deliver it to certain areas unfortunately."
She said her parents are not likely to leave Ukraine now, despite her best efforts.
Zhenya continued: "I used all my negotiation tactics for them.
"I was pleading and saying, 'look we can buy you a house, come visit you' but they are stubborn, and they have lived all their lives there.
"My mother says 'how can we leave? this is our land. This is our house where we raised you, where we raised our grandchildren.
"A lot of people think the same way, they say: 'this is our home, we're staying."
Zhenya, who lives in Leith, moved to the UK 13 years ago and considers the capital to be her home.
She recently helped her sister and niece to escape Ukraine and said they are now in Europe awaiting visas to join her in Edinburgh.
Although she admitted they were "relatively saf.e, she said she would not
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