When hundreds of Russian bombs whistle overhead, Martha Aitken said it is only when they get really close that she flinches.
One of only a handful of aid workers willing to head to the most dangerous spots on the Ukrainian frontline to rescue families stuck among the fighting, she’s too focused to feel fear.
Martha, 30, from Abernethy in Perthshire, regularly drives to Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, to pick up desperate people caught in the aerial bombardment as the war against Ukraine shows no sign of letting up.
She said: “I don’t know how many evacuations I’ve been on now. We take out 80 to 100 people each day.“My first evacuation was two months ago and they haven’t stopped – we will do another tomorrow.“The sound of bombs around Kharkiv is so common I barely lift my head.
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