For almost 70 years St Mary's Catholic church in Cheetham Hill has been at the heart of Ukrainian life in Manchester. And on Thursday morning, just hours after Russian launched its invasion, it was where the community came together on one of their darkest days.
Amid shock, anger and grief, long-established families born and raised here stood side-by-side with newer arrivals to our city.
All had just one thing on their mind. READ MORE: In the packed church friends shared news of relatives and anxiously hunched over mobile phones desperate for the latest updates on the invasion.
Tears were shed as the sombre 90 minute-long Mass was brought to a close with a defiant rendition of the Ukrainian national anthem, 'Ukraine Has Not Yet Perished'.
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