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Melanie Bonn

Mission to offer soup to survivors of Ukraine invasion for Perthshire's Martha Aitken

A woman from Abernethy in Scotland is on her way to Ukraine where she plans to be delivering soup to the elderly and disabled this winter.

Thirty-one-year-old Martha Aitken, an ex-pupil of Perth High School, already put her life on the line driving a van in repeated evacuation efforts over the summer, taking vulnerable people out of the Russian-occupied zone north-east of Kharkiv to safe areas.

On a first stint to the conflict zone in April, she helped evacuate families from acute danger and was helping supply aid to refugee centres throughout the country.

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