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Ukrainians fleeing war find welcome in a Calais hostel, but not in Britain

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By Layli Foroudi CALAIS, France (Reuters) – When Russian troops invaded Ukraine and thousands of its citizens began fleeing, London-based Ukrainian Natalya Verbovetskyy headed in the opposite direction to rescue her 17-year-old daughter and her sister. They met in Romania before travelling across Europe by bus. Now, though, they are hunkered down in a hostel in the northern French port city of Calais after British border agents refused her sister permission to board the ferry without a visa. “They asked for all these documents, and for them to be translated into English,” Verbovetskyy, a hotel…

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