Lelde Vaza owns the business, her clients a mixture of Russians and Russian speakers from the nearby area.

But Lelde, who is Latvian, is now considering changing the name of the sauna after receiving a death threat soon after Russia invaded Ukraine.

She says she thought the man was calling to make a booking, but when he became angry she put the phone down.

He then left a voice message threatening to slit her throat.

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"I was scared, I was in a panic, to be honest. The next morning I was in a police station" she says.

"My clients and me, we are angry because it's not acceptable. You can't treat people this way.

"There are many people in this country who speak Russian. You can't be so xenophobic. It's unacceptable. We love this country, we live here, we work here. It really must be stopped."

'It's not our fault that we speak Russian'

The police have investigated the message and she is deciding whether to press charges.

"I just want to tell him I forgive you, please don't do this again. Just stop doing this. It's not our fault that we speak Russian.

"We have nothing to do with what's going right now in Russia. We are living here, we are speaking this language, most of us we are supporting Ukraine, please stop these xenophobic attacks."

Russian builder forced to block social media accounts

She isn't alone in being targeted. Vadim Aleksin moved to the UK from Russia 15 years ago.

He's now living in Coventry and working as a builder in Derby.

But as the director of a Russian Cultural Centre, he's been targeted on social media.

"I got quite a lot of messages in the first couple of days before I blocked my Facebook page," he says.

"All of us, all my friends, my colleagues at the Russian Cultural Centre we had the same, like 'we find you, we kill you'."

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He's been advising friends to block their social media accounts and report threats to the police.

But he's frustrated that they're being targeted.

'I have nothing to do with Russia'

His colleague and friend Aleksej Panfilov has lived in the UK for eight years.

Although his parents are Russian, his wife is Ukrainian.

His main concern over the last week is making sure she could get out of Kyiv safely.

"I have nothing to do with Russia, with Russian politics, with Russian government. It's nothing to do with me," he says.

Vadim adds: "I don't know any Russian who supports the war."

Asked if he supports it, he's clear: "No, completely not."