JCB is providing housing for 70 Ukrainian refugees.

JCB, a manufacturer of construction equipment, has provided homes to 70 Ukrainians as its chairman calls on the government to ease refugee restrictions.

In Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, the company has prepared numerous company homes and a disused hotel for women and children fleeing the fighting.

Nataliia Stepanenko and her two children were the first migrants to arrive in May.

However, JCB Chairman Lord Bamford believes the government should move more quickly.

“There is a problem that needs to be recognized as such, and can we help?” he added.

Ms Stepanenko and her children Diana, 21, and Denis, 16, were forced to flee their apartment in Boryspil, Ukraine, in February.

Serhii, her husband, works for JCB in Ukraine but has been conscripted into the army of his nation.

Ms Stepanenko and her children accepted the building firm’s offer of a property near their Staffordshire headquarters, according to the company.

The suggestion from another nation startled Ms Stepanenko, but she said it was “fine” because “people in Uttoxeter are quite kind.”

JCB also owns a former Travelodge in Uttoxeter that is being renovated for a big number of families, according to the company.

Viktor Melnykevic, a Ukrainian employee at their Rocester facility in Staffordshire, said he would help welcome the refugees.

He still has family in Ukraine, including his 68-year-old mother, and stated, “I can’t sleep properly when I go to bed.” My mother advised me not to.