A former Lake District businessman has delivered an ambulance packed full of medical supplies to the Ukrainian authorities after driving it 1,500 miles across France and Poland.
Johnnie Curwen,50, made his mercy dash to the Ukrainian border on Friday after raising £13,500.
Johnnie, who used to run a small hotel near Windermere but decamped to France a few years ago to run a property lettings business, said: “I’m so grateful to everybody who generously donated to make this happen, particularly my friends and everyone in the Lake District.
“If we can save just one life this will all have been worth it.”
Representatives from the Ukrainian humanitarian aid hub in Lviv were handed the keys to the vehicle in Rzeszow on the Polish/Ukrainian border on Friday.
The ambulance was packed with first aid kits, sterile bandages, painkillers, tourniquets, blankets, plasters and gloves.
Millions of people have already fled the country after the Russian invasion but millions more are either trapped with limited access to food and water or have pledged to stay and fight.
Johnnie, who started fund raising immediately after the initial invasion, still returns regularly to Cumbria where his mother Susan Thornely was a former High Sheriff.
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