Ukraine war: UK refugee scheme set to launch

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By George Bowden & Alice Evans BBC News Image source, Getty Images Image caption, More than 2.5 million refugees have fled Ukraine since the invasion, the UN estimates More details of a scheme to match Ukrainian refugees with people in the UK who are considering opening up their homes are to be set out later.
The government is to send 500 portable electricity generators for use in facilities such as hospitals and shelters which have lost power following the invasion - something President Volodymyr Zelensky made a direct request for.
The first hosts and refugees will be matched this week, allowing the first Ukrainians to arrive in the UK through this route in about two weeks' time, the BBC's chief political correspondent Adam Fleming says.
Organisations such as charities and churches will eventually be able to sponsor refugees, though there is no start date for this phase of the scheme yet.