The co-founder of Factory Records, Alan Erasmus, has arrived in the Ukraine to make good on a promise to help in the fight against Vladimir Putin's Russian forces.
The 72-year-old, who is struggling with diabetes, flew out of Manchester to Poland last week and travelled by bus over the border to Ukraine.
Before he went, he messaged shocked friends and told them: "I've fought bullies of one kind or another all my life."
