Ukrainians in Bury have gathered to remember a tragedy which happened 90 years ago in their homeland in which millions of people died.

The great famine in Ukraine in 1932 and 1933, known as Holodomor, which means "death by starvation", led to the deaths of up to six million people.

Soviet Union leader at the time, Joseph Stalin, was said to have weaponised food to deliberate starve Ukrainians.

On Saturday, November 25, Ukrainians living in the borough came together with dignitaries at the Ukrainian Social Club on Openshaw Street in Bury to remember the tragedy.

Bury Times: Bury mayor Sandra Walmsley and her consort with a Ukrainian refugee child Bury mayor Sandra Walmsley and her consort with a Ukrainian refugee child (Image: Public)

In the spring of 1933, Malcolm Muggeridge, correspondent for the Manchester Guardian in Moscow, travelled secretly through Ukraine and was appalled at the scenes of mass starvation and sights of dead bodies.

His reports were published anonymously in the Manchester Guardian in March 1933.

The event comes as Ukraine continues to defend itself following the Russian invasion last year.

Millions of Ukrainians have had to leave their country as the war carries on.