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Yulia Pyatova, who is married to goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov, posted a heart-wrenching message on her Instagram account where she begged for the war to end and told of her desperation to return.
Katerina Mozhna and her four-year-old son Maxim are now safe, having fled to Romania from Ukraine, funded with help from generous Mail on Sunday readers.
Thousands gathered in cities from the ex-Soviet Balkans to Tbilisi and further afield to Florence to protest the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and price hikes being blamed on the conflict.
Cabinet is at loggerheads over plans by Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove to seize Russian oligarch's mansions and use them to house fleeing Ukrainians displaced by Putin.
The bulk of Russian forces are now no more than 15 miles from the city centre, reports suggest. But will they be able to penetrate the capital's increasingly intricate defences?