A SUPPORT worker at a Dorset nursing home has given up her flat to accommodate a family of Ukrainian refugees.

Kasia Rudzinska, a senior support worker at Highcliffe Nursing Home, has agreed to give up a flat attached to her family property in Poland to a Ukrainian woman and her three children.

She said: “We welcomed a lovely lady called Oksana with her three children Ewa, 10, Nastyia, 11, and Denis, 16."

Highcliffe Nursing Home have also been collecting donations for Ukraine including sleeping bags, toys, colouring books and toothpaste.

Mrs Rudzinska, who works at the nursing home eight months a year and lives in Poland the rest of the time, explained how in these circumstances it was “completely natural and a unanimous decision” to open the door of their flat to refugees.

She said: “Everyone knows about the large number of refugees trying to find shelter in Poland. However, not everyone knows they are mothers with children, the disabled and elderly.

“Most of them became homeless after crossing the border; they have nowhere to go and cannot communicate as they cannot speak Polish.

“Oksana does not know how long they will be in Poland but strongly believes the terrible time will end some day and she will be able to take the children back home.”