Here at last after lengthy wait for visas

IRYNA Dmytriienko’s little girl is enjoying the “peace and quiet” of rural life.

Nine-year-old

Victoriia has made friends at the local primary school since she arrived with her mother and grandmother from Lviv on

June 14. The

HAPPY Oksana with Victoriia.

Inset, Iryna

family left for Poland on February 26 – two days after Russia invaded Ukraine – but Iryna, 33, told how they spent a further three months waiting for their visas to come through.

Gran Oksana, 59, said: “Missiles hit Lviv after we left. It is good here for Victoriia because she cannot hear the sirens and air

defence.”