Thousands of Brits are preparing to flee Ukraine amid fears Russia will invade within days. Many are afraid of being stranded in the capital Kyiv if Kremlin tanks imposed a stranglehold on the city.It is believed there are up to 6000 British expats in Ukraine.Most plan to flee by plane but if the airport is blitzed, they will drive west towards Poland to escape the fighting.
Ken Stewart, 54, originally from Edinburgh, faces a particularly nail-biting few days as his Ukrainian wife Tetiana, 36, is heavily pregnant.
She is due soon and is booked in to recover at a private hospital near their home 35 miles outside Kyiv, which is in Vladimir Putin’s line of fire.
They live with daughter Yaryna, three, in quiet village Bucha, north west of the capital, towards Belarus.If Russian tanks attack – with as many as 80,000 Moscow and Belarusian troops gathered there already – Ken would flee with his family.The IT executive, who moved to Ukraine 15 years ago, said: “We are right in the area where they will be.
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