A charity shop in Dublin city centre has opened to provide free essentials, such as clothes, food, toys and baby items for Ukrainian refugees.
The 'Palyantsya' centre on Clarendon Street was set up by businessman Ruslan Mocharskyy, who has been in Ireland for a number of years.
The Ukrainian native owns branches of coffee shops around Dublin, but he says he has had little time to devote to his business in recent weeks.
Since the outbreak of war in his home country, he has been organising aid for Ukraine, sending trucks to Poland with essential supplies, but with a surplus of clothing at warehouses there, he decided to start offering it to the people arriving here from Ukraine.
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