"I'll never forget it" - our presenter hears about atrocities in Ukraine

A Northsound presenter says he has seen evidence of atrocities being carried out in Ukraine from volunteers who have been travelling to the country.

Jeff Diack has driven a bus filled with £30,000 worth of essentials to Poland - it has all been donated by people and businesses in the the North East.

Speaking on his way back from Poland, he told Northsound: "Unbelievable – the efforts people are going to to help their neighbours. They asked 'why are you sending this over from Scotland.' I said we just wanted to do something to help – they said, 'same as us, we just want to help our neighbours.'

"We’ve done the easy bit we just had a road trip – it was the girls in Aberdeen who collected everything up and the guys here that are going to do the really, really hard stuff.

"They’re soldiering over there twice a week with stuff people need. And it’s only been this week we’ve managed to order bullet proof vests for doing this.

“A couple of the guys who’ve been doing the convoys said to us ‘do you want to see what we see when we get there?'.....I don’t think I’ll ever forget what they showed us.

"It's horrific. So bad. I won’t describe what they showed us but it was awful and I’ll never forget it.

"You sometimes see on telly really, really bad images of things which happened during the second world war – and because it’s old and it’s black and white it doesn’t really seem real. And the guy showed us a video last night that was timestamped six days ago – and it’s really real."

Jeff sets off from Aberdeen to Poland.

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