An Edinburgh man driving Ukrainian families to safe houses across Europe has told how a petrified mum wrote contact details inside her baby’s nappy in case she failed to escape shelling by Kremlin forces.
John Duncan admitted his “heart was broken” when the passenger who fled Odessa amid the Russian invasion of the country explained she inscribed a phone number on a slip of paper inside her young child’s clothing for rescuers to contact should she fail to make it out alive.
The filmmaker, from Leith, flew to the border last month after pausing his career in order to aid in the relief effort by transporting families desperately escaping the conflict to hosts in Poland and Germany.
