How Gleeds boss in Ukraine escaped from Kyiv

By Dave Rogers2022-03-17T07:00:00

Scotsman in charge of firm’s office in the capital is back in Manchester with his wife having travelled for 80 hours to border with Slovakia

Building first spoke to Colin Ross a week or so before Russia invaded last month. In charge of Gleeds’ Ukraine office for the past five or so months, he had chatted from the apartment in central Kyiv that he shared with Ira, his Ukrainian wife of 22 years.

“We’re facing a multitude of problems,” he had said at the time. “The Omicron variant is now arriving with us, there’s a shortage of materials, there’s price escalations, you have to make sure projects are running properly.

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