A brave nurse has told of little children being lined up and shot by Russian soldiers in war-ravaged Ukraine. The NHS staff helped orphaned children and traumatised troops who had lost their families, homes and businesses to Vladimir Putin's invasion.
Marta Roscoe, 37, from Stockport, was told by an amputee that she was forced to watch young children being lined up and shot by Kremlin troops.
Marta, who has a four-year-old son and a seven-year-old daughter, said: "It is absolutely brutal. One of the patients, Pyotr said he saw his neighbours put in a line, including small children and shot. READ MORE:Ex-England footballer turned drugs boss snared at Manchester Airport after living glam life with 'Led Zeppelin' "According to soldiers they were shaving the heads of little girls as young as four-years-old to make them look like little boys, because the girls are being raped.
Little boys were also being raped and shot, some as young as four-years-old." Marta, a coordinator at Wythenshawe Hospital, was joined on the five-day trip by nurses Sister Louise Crossley-Birch, Janette Butterworth, vaccinator, mental health nursing assistant Michelle Piercy and paediatric intensive care nurse Nikki Forshaw-Mahon.
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