I interviewed a local man living in Ukraine earlier in the week.
He had business links with the country for many years, moved out before lockdown and got married during the pandemic.
He told me he wouldn't leave the country without his wife, her daughter and granddaughter and her 80 year old mother.
They couldn't come to Ireland without a visa, which he explained took a long time to get, and he wouldn't leave without them.
I haven't been able to stop thinking about them all day.