Factory Records co-founder, 72, arrives in Ukraine to help refugees fleeing the fighting
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe co-founder of Factory Records, Alan Erasmus, has arrived in the Ukraine to make good on a promise to help in the fight against Vladimir Putin's Russian forces.
The 72-year-old, who is struggling with diabetes, flew out of Manchester to Poland last week and travelled by bus over the border to Ukraine.
Before he went, he messaged shocked friends and told them: "I've fought bullies of one kind or another all my life." READ MORE: Investigation launched after man shows up to A&E with gunshot wound Now in Lviv in the west of the besieged country, as the shelling by the Russians gets ever closer, he has told the M.E.N.
about the humanitarian crisis unfolding in front of his eyes as he helps the thousands of refugees fleeing the fighting further east.
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