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Ukrainian Holocaust survivors are being helped to flee Vladimir Putin's army by a US-based charity.

Elderly people whose earliest memories are of Nazi death camps are being rescued in a 'complex and dangerous mission' and finding refuge in Israel and Germany.

Galina Ploschenko, 88, who was trapped in a retirement home in the eastern city of Dnipro, was nervous when told she would be taken to Hanover. She said: 'They told me Germany was my best option. I told them, "I hope you're right".'

Ms Ploschenko lost her aunt and two cousins in the gas chambers. Around 100 of Ukraine's estimated 10,000 Holocaust survivors have so far been taken to safety.