British man rescues Ukrainian gran, mother and daughter raped by Russian soldiers ➡️ Chris Parry, 27, went to the war-torn country despite having no military experience
. “But when I got there they said you’re going to be more of a hindrance.”
The vehicle broke down – one of many times it would do so – late at night past curfew. “When a car pulls up you freeze, not knowing if it’s the Russians,” he said., Ukraine’s second-largest city, where Russian forces in February began carrying out indiscriminate attacks on civilians using rockets containing banned cluster munitions, designed to inflict widespread damage. Many were left without power, food and drinking water. He slept on the floor, a situation he soon got used to.
They sped past a sea of charred buildings with smoke and dust rising into the sky and in a grey, dull USSR-esque high rise building, they found the old lady and her son. But not all rescues have had a happy ending. Chris had instructions to help a family but they had issues with their vehicle and took two days to get to them.
“Their house had been destroyed. They were talking and my translator burst out crying. He later told me they’d told him the Russian soldiers had forced themselves on all of them. Three generations,” he said.
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