A Ukrainian ship's captain docked in Liverpool today said Russian troops massacred around 33 unarmed civilians in his home town of Kherson this week.
But Grandad-of-two Volodmyr Sodorenko, master of the Elbstrom cargo vessel, has been working at sea for weeks and has no idea when he will be able to return to his family in Ukraine.
Volodmyr, 59, left his home to work on the ship on December 29 and described how he has been desperately trying to maintain contact with his wife, two daughters and grandchildren while away at sea.
