A COUPLE have painted their home blue and yellow to show their support for Ukraine.
Rend Platings and her hubby Michael spent Sunday transforming their £400,000 home, in Cambridge, into a giant version of the Ukrainian flag to show they stand with the country.
It took the pair the whole day to re-paint their cream-coloured semi-detached house with some help from a pal.
Charity founder Rend said: “My husband and I both feel really strongly about what has happened in the Ukraine.
“I’m from Iraq and I know what war is like and how awful it is.
"With war the more you think about it, the more horrendous it is."
Rend, who has an eight-year-old daughter, has close ties to Ukraine.
She has been having fertility treatment in Kyiv after the pandemic made access to IVF in the UK more difficult.
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And during the couple’s visits to Ukraine they have made lots of friends and now feel a strong connection with the country.
Rend, who is founder of the charity Sugarwise, explained: “One of my very best friends is in Kyiv.
“She's spent the last few days in a shelter with her niece who is my daughter's age and they played together at our last visit.
“It's so difficult to explain this heart-breaking situation to adults let alone children.”
The Cambridge-based pair have seen people put Ukrainian flags on their homes but they wanted to go a step further to show they stand together with Ukrainian chums.
She said: “I want to see the whole country light up in blue and yellow.”
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