‘No humanity whatsoever’: pleas for UK to grant visa to autistic Ukrainian boy
by Helen Pidd and Diane Taylor from World news | The Guardian on (#5ZNYV)
Timothy Tymoshenko was sent to Poland because of his distress but does not qualify for Homes for Ukraine scheme
A British man who has turned his Polish castle into a makeshift hotel for Ukrainian refugees has accused the UK government of showing no humanity whatsoever" for not allowing a severely autistic teenager to come to live with an approved foster carer in Lancashire.
Pleas are mounting for compassion to be shown to Timothy Tymoshenko, 16, who fled the war in Ukraine without his parents. He is living with his 17-year-old brother, Yurii, in what was once a private palace for the prince-bishop of Wrocaw in Piotrowice Nyskie, a tiny Polish village near the Czech border.
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