'I fled sirens and explosions after my city was invaded... now Manchester is my home'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukTwelve months ago, Masha Semeniuk was met with the sound of sirens. The 34-year-old had made her life in Kyiv. Her friends, her family and her job were all in Ukraine's bustling capital.
But on February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Masha's home city, and her journey to Manchester was weeks away. She told the Manchester Evening News: "We were almost the first who understood that trouble was near, that war was here.
I remember explosions all the time, alarms. READ MORE: EncroChat gang with nicknames 'Shinyegg' and 'Buttermoon' snared after moving over £1 million worth of drugs "At the building [I lived at] we had an [underground] floor without any communication.
It was just a room without anything, but we hid there. "The alarm went off every two hours - in the daytime, at night, all the time.
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