With the situation in Ukraine looking as bleak as ever, Ukrainians fleeing the war are continuing to arrive in Waterford.
Kateryna Ruban is one of those.
She arrived here with her two teenage daughters and her dog Sky, the Saturday before last. They had an arduous six-day journey, travelling by train from Kyiv to Chernobyl, then to Warsaw, Berlin, Cologne, Paris, and Cherbourg, and eventually getting a ferry to Rosslare.
Kateryna's husband is still fighting in Ukraine and her mother, who has cancer, has come out of retirement to return to working as a nurse in the city.
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She's been speaking to WLR's MaryAnn Vaughan about her decision to flee, and the night their neighbourhood was bombed and about her gratitude towards Irish people.
