Scottish Labour MP forced to take cover during Russian air raid on Ukraine

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A Scottish Labour MP was forced to run for cover from a Russian air raid during an official visit to Ukraine.Glasgow South MP Gordon McKee has described how he was woken up by a siren at his hotel in Kyiv and scrambled to a bomb shelter in the middle of the night.He said the ordeal was "scary" but had given him "a glimpse of what the people of Ukraine go through every single day." McKee was one of seven newly-elected MPs on a five-day visit to the Eastern European country for an international conference.

During the trip he saw Ukrainian president Volodmyr Zelenskyy, visited wounded soldiers and saw a bombed children's hospital.McKee wrote in a diary for the Record: "Returning to our hotel before the midnight curfew, I head upstairs for much needed sleep."At around 1.40am, I’m awakened by a piercing sound.

It is an air raid siren. The Russians are attacking."Over the hotel Tannoy, information is blasted out explaining the route to the bomb shelter.

My phone’s alert app wails as I throw on my clothes. "From my sixth floor hotel room, I walk down the fire exit stairs and toward the bunker. "Two floors underground, in what used to be car park, but it is now a bomb shelter, I meet my colleagues. "Handily, the hotel has set up beds in the shelter.