Six months after the war broke out, Olena Mykhailova and her two children Olga and Alex relocated to South Devon. <\/p>\n
Olena’s husband Valentin stayed in Kyiv, to continue running the family business.<\/p>\n
Olena said: “It’s another life because now everything’s changed. We don’t know what will happen after one hour, one day.<\/p>\n
“We have made a lot of friends here who helped us from the first day. It’s amazing.”<\/p>\n
Olena’s children faced challenges with learning English. <\/p>\n
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.”<\/p>\n
Since arriving in the UK, Olena, Olga and Alex have been living with a host family, Paul and Isy.<\/p>\n
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’.”<\/p>\n
Olena said: “We hope this war ends and we can come back to Ukraine and we can be together with family and friends.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six months after the war broke out, Olena Mykhailova and her two children Olga and Alex relocated to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-442753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}