Six months after the war broke out, Olena Mykhailova and her two children Olga and Alex relocated to South Devon.
Olena’s husband Valentin stayed in Kyiv, to continue running the family business.
Olena said: “It’s another life because now everything’s changed. We don’t know what will happen after one hour, one day.
“We have made a lot of friends here who helped us from the first day. It’s amazing.”
Olena’s children faced challenges with learning English.
Alex said: “I thought I knew some English, but I came here and I went to school on first day and heard people speaking and it was like a completely different language.”
Since arriving in the UK, Olena, Olga and Alex have been living with a host family, Paul and Isy.
Isy remembers the first time she met the family at the airport. She said: “Olena ran under the barrier and she put her arms around me and I said to her ‘you’re safe, you’re safe now’.”
Olena said: “We hope this war ends and we can come back to Ukraine and we can be together with family and friends.”