'I'm desperate to return home but pessimistic about Ukraine's future'
It has been three years since the invasion of Ukraine.
Today marks three years since Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine.
And Greatest Hits Radio spoke to Margarita Bondarenko, who currently lives in Canterbury with her 15 year old daughter. They have been living in Kent since 2022, returning home for the first time last year.
Margarita said: "We were in Ukraine for a little bit more than two weeks and during that time we could hear all these sounds of missiles and drones and one day, the alarms went off and we had to go and take cover in a shelter.
"And I don't really know how people in Ukraine are living like this because that was horrible, just the noise of the kids, the dogs and the cats.
It comes as US President Donald Trump is being widely criticised in the Western world for calling Ukrainian President Volodomir Zelensky a dictator last week, and suggesting Ukraine started the war.
On this, Margarita said: "When we first arrived in the U.K. we were waiting for the war to end and to go back home but he has already been three years and the situation, unfortunately, is getting worse.
"Especially after the U.S. elections which has changed something geopolitically and now I don't understand what the future is for Ukraine and that is why I would say my intentions will and I believe we will try to be settling in the U.K.
Following the comments a planned news conference after talks between Ukrainian President Zelensky and US President Trump's Ukraine envoy was cancelled.
The format of the press event, which was to include comments to the media by Mr Zelensky and retired US lieutenant general Keith Kellogg, was changed at the last minute on Thursday so that the two did not deliver statements or field questions from journalists.
The change was reportedly requested by the US side.
Businessman Elon Musk, who is acting as an adviser on federal spending to Mr Trump, meanwhile suggested Mr Zelensky is running a "fraud machine feeding off the dead bodies of soldiers".
The Prime Minister will travel to America this week, to meet face-to-face with Mr Trump for the first time since he became president.