The Latest Breaking News from Alina

Alina Shutova, seven, had been among the sea of refugees in Poland after her visa was blocked by the Home Office.

Of course she's a self-proclaimed yogi.

The host family from Conwy are calling on politicians and the media to help

A colleague from Kyiv, Ukraine, whom I’ll call N.M., sent me brief essays her students wrote on what they would do when the war ends. As both a scholar and a novelist, I knew that these voices, which expressed a beautifully straightforward and pure yearning for the simplest things that…

I still don’t know if Alina has made it out of Mariupol, or whether she is alive.

Oleksandr Kukin was trying to help his family escape the war-ravaged capital of Ukraine when his car was shot at by Russian troops, killing him and injuring his wife Alina and their daughter

English teacher Harry Richardson, who once worked at a college in Leek, Staffordshire, said he and his family are sheltering with another 70 terrified locals in a cellar beneath Cherkasy - a town around 100 miles from Kyiv

I notice how our rings press against each other. We watch as the zebras stroll to a hilltop above the waves