Brave Brit aid worker loses arm & leg after being blown up in Russian drone attack as he rescued trapped Ukrainians
While rescuing Ukrainians stranded along the frontlines, a British relief worker was brutally attacked by a Russian drone, losing both his arm and leg.
While heroic volunteer Eddy Scott was rescuing innocent victims from the war-torn city of Pokrovsk, he suffered critical injuries.
On January 30, brave Eddy was operating a plainly designated armored humanitarian truck when an enemy FPV drone targeted it.
After being rescued from the blood-covered debris, he was taken to the hospital, where doctors amputated his left arm and leg.
As friends applauded his bravery, Eddy was remarkably seen grinning in his hospital bed and giving the thumbs up with his remaining hand.
When fellow volunteer Filip Goncharov freed him from the wrecked truck, he embraced him with tears in his eyes and said, “You saved me, man, you saved me.”
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The immediate aftermath of the almost fatal assault was captured on horrifying images and video.
The explosion tore open the armored truck he was operating, causing blood to stream across the driver’s seat.
After taking the brunt of the blast, Sailor Eddy from Shaftesbury, Dorset, was taken to the hospital, where doctors fought to save his life.
In December of last year, while evacuating three elderly people in Shevchenko, his squad barely escaped another Russian attack.
Eddy described how they had a sophisticated tracker that provided a real-time feed of kamikaze drones in the region in an internet post from Pokrovsk.
The adversary, along with Ukrainian soldiers, straps the quadcopters with explosives and uses first-person live-feed cameras to fly them.
Every day, there are attacks in frontline cities like Pokrovsk.
Brave According to Eddy, there is a constant threat of Russian assaults and the deadly drones are always in the skies.
“We get lucky sometimes and the weather is bad,” he remarked.We are concealed from prying eyes by the invisibility cloak that snow, rain, and fog provide.
However, they continue to shoot even after they are blinded. When we get there, the majority of our evacuees are already there.
“They’re prepared to go. Some, however, require persuasion. the risk of remaining and the safety of departing. Most choose to depart.
“We load the van with their possessions. We take everything that fits, including bags, cartons, jars, burlap sacks, trolleys, and more.
“Some have only a single bag containing their most important possessions.”
He said that Pokrovsk has “suffered” and that it is among the worst affected places in Ukraine that he has been to.
Our city’s roads are littered with new debris every day. Blocks of apartments were demolished, and the last residents had been evacuated days earlier, Eddy added.
“The rolling storm of artillery, and plumes of smoke across the city.”
The van was struck directly while two civilians were being evacuated, according to Base UA, a non-governmental organization Eddy worked for.
Eddy “took the majority of the blow” and suffered life-altering injuries, according to the group.
Only because of the heroic efforts of his close friend Filip, who provided Eddy with life-saving care under tremendous strain, is he still alive.
Doctors ultimately only had to amputate Eddy’s left arm and leg.
Additionally, two of the refugees suffered minor injuries from shrapnel.
“Russian troops are shelling civilians and humanitarian organizations,” Base UA continued. Every day in Pokrovsk, we witness this.
“We continue to support Eddy and Filip during this difficult time.”
Eddy, the driver that day, bore the brunt of the strike and suffered critical injuries, while the majority were able to escape with only minor wounds.
Since Russia’s invasion three years ago, Eddy, shown here with his German Shepherd Ice, has made numerous trips to Ukraine to provide aid.
“I have responsibilities now, with both the world’s cutest dog and goddaughter, and an obligation to help defend my home,” he said in a December post about feeling at home in Ukraine.
“Now I’m back at the aforementioned crack home, listening to the windows rattle and planning thenextphase of work, a four hour drive from the closest l’ve been to peace in months.”
Since then, a GoFundMe campaign has been created and has raised more than $46,000.
An FPV drone struck our team’s armored vehicle during a civilian evacuation from the frontline in Pokrovsk, according to a post on the fundraising.
“Eddy, the driver that day, bore the brunt of the strike and suffered critical injuries, while the majority were able to escape with only minor wounds.
As a result, his left arm and leg were amputated. He is currently receiving the vital treatment he requires in an intensive care unit and is in stable health.
It goes on to say: “Eddy has risked his life numerous times over the past three years to help others, and now it’s our turn to help him.
“Eddy has a long road ahead, and during this time will not have any way of earning any income, so a portion of the money donated will go to his living costs during/after rehabilitation.”
“Eddy allowed me to stay with him near the Eastern front for free during my last trip to Ukraine,” his friend Nick Laidlaw wrote in another post.
“He provided hot meals in the evening and a bed for my translator and me.
“Eddy was assisting in moving hospital equipment out of range of Russian shelling at the time, and I would be out during the day filming artillery or medical evacuations.
“Even after working nonstop for free all day, he always had a hot lunch waiting for us when he got home.
“Eddy is among the most generous and helpful people I’ve ever encountered.
“It’s time for us to assist him after he has been helping Ukrainian residents for years.
“Instead of buying that cup of Starbucks, please consider helping Eddy recover as the victim of a warcrime.”
“We are raising money for the best care for Eddy, who risked his life every day to save lives on the frontline,” added fellow Brit Harley William.
He is a young British man with the biggest heart. Now, he is amputee.
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Exactly one year has passed since Andrew Bagshaw and Chris Parry, two other British charity workers, were killed during an evacuation run in Soledar, eastern Ukraine, when Eddy’s humanitarian vehicle was attacked.
Chris’s family declared in a statement at the time: “His selfless determination in helping the old, young, and disadvantaged there has made us and his larger family extremely proud.”