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Moira Kerr

Scots aid worker rescues victims of Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine as bombs drop around her

When hundreds of Russian bombs whistle overhead, Martha Aitken said it is only when they get really close that she flinches.

One of only a handful of aid workers willing to head to the most dangerous spots on the Ukrainian frontline to rescue families stuck among the fighting, she’s too focused to feel fear.

Martha, 30, from Abernethy in Perthshire, regularly drives to Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, to pick up desperate people caught in the aerial bombardment as the war against Ukraine shows no sign of letting up.

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