Scottish snooker star Anthony McGill rescued a Ukrainian refugee from the war-torn nation.
The previous World Championship semi-finalist sponsored Tanya Volovelska to flee closely bombed Kharkiv.
Snooker fan Volovelska drove all the size of the nation together with her aged dad and mom to flee bomb assaults within the metropolis.
She travelled by way of Germany and is now staying with McGill in Glasgow till the warfare in her homeland is over.
McGill, who received her tickets to observe him play on the Crucible this week, mentioned: “It’s someone I do know, a snooker fan.
“Clearly the factor in Ukraine is a nightmare and it’s horrible. These people who find themselves leaving Ukraine have nowhere to go.
“She’s from Kharkiv which is on the Japanese facet of Ukraine which is simply getting bombed to you realize what by Russia.
“I simply mentioned to her if she wanted someplace to remain and she or he took me up on it.
“I stay alone and I’ve received a spare bed room and a variety of time I’m out both training or away at competitions so my home is empty a variety of the time anyway.
"It’s good to assist individuals in case you might help them. Not everyone might help. I’m actually fortunate I've the amenities to host somebody and assist out somewhat bit.
“It’s like that story the place there’s little starfish have washed up on a beech and a person strolling alongside the beech is throwing the starfish again into the water one after the other.
"Anyone else says ‘you may’t make a distinction, there’s hundreds of thousands of starfish’ and he threw one other one again in and mentioned ‘I made a distinction to that one’. So that you simply do your bit.
“I’d wish to assume if there was a warfare in Glasgow or the UK and Glasgow was getting bombed and I wanted someplace to go that somebody would assist.”
McGill signed up for the federal government scheme Properties for Ukraine, however discovered the method painstakingly sluggish.
He mentioned: “The Authorities are actually holding it up. It’s a joke.
"It took her like a month to get the whole lot sorted. I believe the British persons are very useful, however the individuals on the prime don’t appear to actually care to be trustworthy.”