A Ukrainian refugee ... by their hosts. The woman, 45, who fled Bucha, north of Kyiv, came to north-east England on 16 April but said she was asked for money and told to leave after three weeks.

Who clocks in at work when over 880,000 people leave their jobs to join the Ukrainian armed forces? The answer is women. Over the past two years, women have filled the gaps in the civilian workforce ...

The only woman whose face has ever graced Ukrainian banknotes, Lesya Ukrainka was one of the most outstanding literary figures from the Dnieper region and one of the most important European modernists ...