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From the Ukrainian battlefront to Phillip Island

Cowes hairdresser Yelena Barnard, spent time last week hosting two of the estimated 3000 Ukrainian citizens who have arrived in Australia.

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From the Ukrainian battlefront to Phillip Island
Yelena Barnard (centre), proprietor of Spice Hair Salon in Cowes, last week hosted Ukrainian refugees Tatiana and Sergei Kladko over a four-day visit to Cowes. The couple fled from the besieged city of Kharkiv, which has been under bombardment day and night, since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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