JCB, a manufacturer of construction equipment, has provided homes to 70 Ukrainians as its chairman calls on the government to ease refugee restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, the company has prepared numerous company homes and a disused hotel for women and children fleeing the fighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nataliia Stepanenko and her two children were the first migrants to arrive in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, JCB Chairman Lord Bamford believes the government should move more quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“There is a problem that needs to be recognized as such, and can we help?” he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ms Stepanenko and her children Diana, 21, and Denis, 16, were forced to flee their apartment in Boryspil, Ukraine, in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Serhii, her husband, works for JCB in Ukraine but has been conscripted into the army of his nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ms Stepanenko and her children accepted the building firm’s offer of a property near their Staffordshire headquarters, according to the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The suggestion from another nation startled Ms Stepanenko, but she said it was “fine” because “people in Uttoxeter are quite kind.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
JCB also owns a former Travelodge in Uttoxeter that is being renovated for a big number of families, according to the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Viktor Melnykevic, a Ukrainian employee at their Rocester facility in Staffordshire, said he would help welcome the refugees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n