Brave Brit aid worker loses arm & leg after being blown up in Russian drone attack as he rescued trapped Ukrainians

A BRITISH assistance idiosyncratic mislaid his limb and limb successful a savage Russian drone onslaught arsenic helium rescued Ukrainians trapped on the frontlines.

Heroic unpaid Eddy Scott was earnestly injured whilst evacuating guiltless civilians from the war-torn metropolis of Pokrovsk.

Brave Eddy was driving a clearly-marked armoured humanitarian motortruck erstwhile it was targeted by an force FPV drone connected January 30.

He was pulled from the blood-splattered wreckage and rushed to infirmary wherever surgeons amputated his near limb and leg.

Remarkably, Eddy was photographed smiling successful his infirmary furniture and giving the thumbs up with his remaining manus arsenic pals praised his courage.

He tearfully embraced chap unpaid Filip Goncharov who pulled him escaped from the busted motortruck and wept: "You saved maine man, you saved me."

Horrifying pictures and video showed the contiguous aftermath of the near-fatal assault.

The armoured motortruck helium was driving was ripped unfastened by the blast with humor spilled crossed the driver's seat.

Sailor Eddy, from Shaftesbury, Dorset, took the brunt of the detonation and was rushed to infirmary wherever surgeons battled to prevention his life.

His squad had narrowly survived different onslaught by Russian forces successful December past twelvemonth arsenic they evacuated 3 aged women successful Shevchenko.

In an online station from Pokrovsk, Eddy told however they were equipped with a high-tech tracker designed to springiness a unrecorded provender of kamikaze drones operating successful the area.

The quad-copters are strapped with explosives by the force - and Ukrainian forces - and flown via archetypal idiosyncratic live-feed cameras.

Attacks successful frontline cities similar Pokrovsk are happening connected a regular basis.

Courageous Eddy described the deadly drones arsenic being perpetually successful the aerial and the fearfulness of Russian attacks ever looming.

He said: "Sometimes we get fortunate and the weather is bad. Snow, rain, and fog enactment arsenic an invisibility cloak, hiding america from prying eyes.

"But adjacent erstwhile they can't see, they inactive shoot. Most of our evacuees are waiting for america erstwhile we arrive.

"They are acceptable to leave. But immoderate request convincing. The information of leaving, and the information of staying. Most determine to leave.

"We battalion their belongings into the van. Some bring bags and boxes and jars and burlap sacks and trolleys and... We instrumentality everything we tin fit.

"Some person lone a azygous container containing their astir important possessions."

He noted that Pokrovsk is 1 of the worst deed areas successful Ukraine helium has visited saying the metropolis has "suffered".

"Every time caller debris litter our routes done the city. Blocks of flats destroyed, their past inhabitants evacuated days before," Eddy said.

"The rolling tempest of artillery, and plumes of fume crossed the city."

Base UA, a non-governmental organisation Eddy was moving for, said the van was deed straight during the evacuation of 2 citizens.

The radical said Eddy "took the bulk of the blow" and was near with crippling injuries.

He is lone live owed to the superb efforts of his adjacent person Filip, who gave lifesaving attraction nether utmost unit to Eddy.

In the end, doctors lone had to amputate Eddy's near limb and arm.

Two of the evacuees besides sustained insignificant shrapnel injuries.

Base UA added: "Russian troops are shelling humanitarian organisations and civilians. We spot this successful Pokrovsk each day.

"We proceed to enactment Eddy and Filip during this hard time."

Eddy, pictured with his German Shepherd Ice, has repeatedly travelled to Ukraine to assistance since Russia invaded 3 years ago.

In December helium wrote astir feeling settled successful Ukraine - adding: "I person responsibilities now, with some the world's cutest canine and goddaughter, and an work to assistance support my home.

"Now I'm backmost astatine the aforementioned ace home, listening to the windows rattle and readying the next signifier of work, a 4 hr thrust from the closest l've been to bid successful months."

A GoFundMe leafage has since been acceptable up and has already raised implicit £46,000.

A station connected the fundraiser read: "During a civilian evacuation from the frontline successful Pokrovsk, our team's armoured conveyance was deed by a FPV drone.

"Most got retired with insignificant injuries but Eddy, who was the operator that day, took the bulk of the stroke and was earnestly injured.

"He consequently had his near limb and limb amputated. He is present successful unchangeable information successful an ICU and receiving the captious attraction helium needs."

It adds: "Eddy has dedicated the past 3 years of his beingness to helping others, risking his beingness countless times, and present it’s our crook to assistance him.

"Eddy has a agelong roadworthy ahead, and during this clip volition not person immoderate mode of earning immoderate income, truthful a information of the money donated volition spell to his surviving costs during/after rehabilitation."

Another station from his person Nick Laidlaw said: "Eddy fto maine enactment with him adjacent the Eastern beforehand for escaped during my past travel to Ukraine.

"He gave maine and my translator a bed, and blistery meals successful the evening.

"During the day, I’d beryllium retired filming artillery oregon aesculapian evacuations, and astatine that time, Eddy was helping to determination infirmary instrumentality retired of scope of Russian artillery.

"And still, each nighttime helium came location and had a blistery repast waiting for america aft helium had worked tirelessly for escaped the full day.

"Eddy is 1 of the astir selfless and adjuvant souls I’ve ever met.

"He’s helped the civilians of Ukraine for years, and present it’s our crook to assistance him.

"Instead of buying that cupful of Starbucks, delight see helping Eddy retrieve arsenic the unfortunate of a warfare crime."

Fellow Brit Harley William continued: "We are raising money, for the champion attraction for Eddy, who risked his beingness each time to prevention lives connected the frontline.

"He's a British lad, whose got the biggest heart. He's present an amputee."

The onslaught connected Eddy's humanitarian motortruck comes precisely a twelvemonth aft chap Brit assistance workers Chris Parry and Andrew Bagshaw were killed connected an evacuation tally successful Soledar, eastbound Ukraine.

In a connection issued astatine the time, Chris's household said: "His selfless determination successful helping the old, young and disadvantaged determination has made america and his larger household highly proud."