Ukrainian family reunites with Somerset host family

family from Ukraine has been reunited with the family that offered them a home when war broke out two years ago. The Ukrainians have since moved back to their home country, but returned for a 10-day holiday with their host family in Taunton at the start of March The two families say they have "created bonds that will last a lifetime". It comes just after the two year anniversary of the start of the war in Ukraine. Yuliia Vitkivska came to Taunton with her two children Sofiia, 14, and Matvii, 7, in 2022, after the war broke out in Ukraine.

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