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Daniel Bird & Kirstie McCrum

British 'danger tourist' who went to Ukraine against government advice says 'if I lose a limb I can claim benefits'

A British disaster tourist who is in crisis-hit Ukraine as the Russian invasion unfolds says "if I lose a limb or two I can claim benefits".

Student Miles Routledge tweeted recently that he feels safer being in Ukraine than back home in Birmingham, having travelled there by train from Poland against British government advice.

The Loughborough University undergraduate told the Daily Star : "If I want to be cynical, I'm quite religious - I'm a Catholic. If I die, hopefully, I'll go to heaven, and if I'm wrong and it's blackness, that's not my issue anymore. If that doesn't happen and I'm alive, that's good stuff, if I lose a limb or two I can claim benefits, I guess.

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