So you've got camouflage and jackets, bulletproof vests, boots ready to go and these will be going
to civil defence units. People who have enlisted, signed up to fight, this is the kit that they'll
be getting and it looks like a lot but the sad reality is this this just won't touch the sides
This is the stage where we normally do our singing and our dancing.
Manchester, we have this real history here of
people come here to make that new life and to settle, and our community here
is how you can keep in touch with your roots and keep that looked after, and at
times of need you're helping but you've made your roots here for a reason.
Ukrainian Cultural Centre, how can I help you?
We're raising funds to buy drones and thermal imaging scopes so we can see
the enemy coming at night.
I've never learned more about military equipment than this week.
The Russian forces that are coming in, they've got the kit. These are blokes from the village.
So those were members of the Civil Defence Unit, they've been here to play music with their bands before
and they were asking for thermal scopes. In the past two days, we've raised £15,000 pounds
and managed to buy, I think, five or six and these will now be making their way
over there.
'Turn it off because I can't.'
So life goes on, so they're getting ready for a wedding today.
Hello?
Oh, you're doing a lovely job. I promise I'm more proactive when I'm not massively pregnant.
My parents came in the 90s for a better future and then I was born here.
I can't go and fight, for example, I wish I could.
I can't shoot, I haven't been trained military so this is like the best thing I can do is to help out.
So those three women in the kitchen are all what we call like new Uki's.
It refers to them as like the newer Ukrainians because, as a diaspora, grandparents came over first generation,
my dad; second generation, I'm third, proud British citizens,
but we have very much been brought up in the culture.
Like, if you were to ask me my two nationalities, it would be Ukrainian and Manc.
I can come to you as soon as I can.