A council worker from Edinburgh has come under fire in Ukraine while helping rescue civilians living under Russian bombardment.
Grzegorz Rybak, a care support worker for Edinburgh council's Health and Social Care Partnership, has been staying overnight in nearby Kramatorsk, delivering aid and rescuing residents by day, in a van purchased by his Edinburgh friends and council colleagues. He says the town is war-ravaged but intact, and that residents have no heating and little food.
Grzegorz, 45, who recently moved to Clovenstone, travelled to Ukraine at the beginning of this month on his own initiative after securing leave of absence from the council. He says: "I am not safe, they keep shooting and bombarding. They were shooting at us. Mercenaries shell residential buildings all the time."
