An estate agent has returned from his fourth trip to Ukraine where he delivered crucial aid for war-torn families.

Gary Fear, who works for Butters John Bee in Nantwich, described the trip as the “most rewarding and most unnerving” of his four trips so far.

Fear and his team were assisted by the Ukraine Army who provided body armour so they could take provisions as close to the front line as possible.

He said: “We had an additional van and filled it with £3,800 of food plus a generator that was going to be invaluable for a church that was a meeting point for people to eat, get warm and, with our help, now have light and the ability to charge mobile phones.

“We then travelled seven hours through Odessa to Mykolaiv for the night and next day, unloaded food and packed it into separate bags.

“We drove to Oleksandrivka where every person here had either lost their home or had it damaged and when we arrived, the army chaplain blessed the crowd and we gave food to everyone.”

Fear also handed out food to people in Stanislav, before moving on to Kherson, a city recently liberated by the Ukrainians but still under daily shelling.

“The devastation there [in Kherson] was as bad as anything we had seen before, he said. “We gave out the last of the food and returned to Mykolaiv, hearing later that Kherson was again shelled and people injured.”

Fear and his team concluded their trip by sites in and around Kyiv, where they provided more supplies, to be delivered by the army to those on the front line in Bakhmut.

Fear commented: “We know we have done some great stuff on this trip and will continue to do so, with our next trip booked for the end of April.

“We have now spent £33,000 and aim to raise at least another £7,000 for the next visit.”

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