A couple who offered to give a home to LGBTQ refugees from Ukraine have said they are due to arrive in the UK later.
Sarah and Helen Barley-McMullen, from Belper, Derbyshire, made contact with a couple who fled Kyiv in March.
The two women – one of whom is Russian – have been staying in Berlin awaiting visas and paperwork to allow them to travel to the UK.
Sarah said: to the BBC : «We are so relieved and absolutely over the moon»
The couple – Yulia and Tatiana – have been together for 10 years, the BBC reports.
They worked as translators in Ukraine until they were forced to flee.
