<p>A British-based Ukrainian woman has flown to Poland to try to secure a visa so her elderly relatives can come to the UK.</p><p>Desperate Nataliya Tkachuk, 39, was pictured at a visa application centre in Rzezsow, Poland.</p><p>She is trying to help her mother Mariia and her husband's parents Nataliya and Tom, all in their 70s and 80s. </p><p>They are still in Ukraine just near the border after fleeing home.</p><p>Nataliya, who lives in Newcastle, says she will stay with her relatives until they get a visa approved.</p><p>Her family joins a growing list of applicants at the visa centre.</p><p>Nataliya, who runs a silver jewellery business with her husband, said that she took days to convince her family to leave the country.</p><p>She said: "I don't know how many hours I spent explaining to them that they should leave because they are elderly.</p><p>"My mother is 75 and my husband's parents are 77 and 81. </p><p>''They've lived in Ukraine all their lives and they just cannot imagine going somewhere else.</p><p>"On the first day of the war the airport next to our town was bombarded.</p><p>"After that I said they had to go, and eventually they agreed to leave".</p>
