Welsh Scout leader completes 50th trip to deliver medical aid to Ukraine (nation.cymru)

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A Welsh Scout leader has made his fiftieth delivery of life-saving medical aid to Ukraine.

Shaun Hopkins, a 45-year-old IT expert and Scouts volunteer from Newport, began making the 2,500 mile round trip shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

Since then, he has spent around 500 days on the road ferrying medical equipment to Ukraine in a transit van and this week delivered 12 hospital beds donated by Cardiff University.

“Like many people, we were sat at home as a family watching the full scale invasion unfolding on TV,” Hopkins told Nation.Cymru from the town of Ivano-Frankivsk. “We had a discussion, with my teenage sons and my wife, about what was going on.

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[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

What a dude. Wouldn't like to see the fuel bill mind. Good on the chap.

inb4 rather be in Mariupol than Maindee etc

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