A British national has been killed while volunteering as a medic in Ukraine.
In a GoFundMe set up to bring his body home, 48-year-old Craig Mackintosh’s sister Lorna Mackintosh revealed that he had been killed in Ukraine on 24 August. Mackintosh is believed to have been shot dead when his squad was ambushed, it was reported.
Ms Lorna said that her brother, from Thetford, Norfolk, had lost his life “in the line of duty”.
Mackintosh was a landscape gardener from Norfolk who had volunteered to work with the Ukrainian forces. Reports said he was hit in the neck while trying to help an injured soldier in a vehicle hit by a tank shell near the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
It comes as fierce fighting occurs in Kherson as president Zelensky’s troops hope to regain the captured city which was the first to fall into Russian hands.
An adviser to the president said there will be “no quick wins” in Kherson as the counteroffensive continues.
