Couple who fled Ukraine war move back instead of living in Notts

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They looked for a long-term place to live in Nottingham but say they were met with “terrible” housing conditions, high costs and rental requirements they could not meet

A British-Ukrainian couple who fled the war in Ukraine have decided to move back to the country after failing to find acceptable housing in Nottingham. Joe Place, a British 29-year-old PhD student and content writer from Sheffield, and his wife Iryna, a 34-year-old Ukrainian working as a content manager, left their home in Kyiv in February to escape the conflict in the country.

Read more: Ukrainian 35-week pregnant mum's 'horror' as she left war zone to give birth in Nottingham “We wouldn’t want to live back in Kyiv right now because it’s not safe, but where we are it is very safe, mostly anyway.” Mr Place said because Russia has been hitting Ukrainian infrastructure with missile strikes, they are prepared for electricity and heating outages.

He said money the couple already had in their Ukrainian bank accounts was not accepted and landlords had been repeatedly turning down their applications. “ kind of expensive here ,” he said.

 

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