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Radio Merseyside,9 mins

'It's heart breaking, I can't find the words in English'

Paul Salt

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People in the UK who want to offer a room for Ukrainian refugees will be able to express their interest on a website, is being launched. The government's offering households 350 pounds a month to take in a person or family for a minimum of six months. An estimated 2.5 million refugees have now fled the conflict. Many of them crossed the border into Poland, with large numbers staying there. Rado Chmiel is a Polish translator, who's lived in Liverpool for 16 years, he travelled back to his home town near the border with Ukraine recently to help with the refugee crisis.

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