Craig Borthwick worked alongside fellow Scot Ewen Cameron to rescue Shareef Amin
A Lanarkshire medic has spoken of his part in a daring mission to rescue a seriously injured UK fighter in Ukraine.
Despite coming under heavy Russian bombing, Craig and Ewen managed to get him out of the city. The group then faced the task of transporting Shareef 600 miles across Ukraine and over the border into Poland where he could be airlifted to safety. Teaming up with Ukraine Air Rescue, Craig and Ewen planned Shareef’s evacuation and on December 17, the pair arrived at Krakow airport in Poland to collect an ambulance lent to them by a Norwegian crew.
In a stroke of luck, a group of Ukrainian citizens in a convoy of 4x4 vehicles who were heading to the border stopped at the filling station and spent hours trying to get the ambulance going. However, the pair were eventually forced to abandon it in a bid to get to Shareef.“We had to carry 100kg of kit on foot between the two of us. Stations are a target for the Russians and we didn’t know until the next morning that as we were travelling through Vinnytsia, it was being bombed.
He said: “When we got to Lviv, the paperwork still wasn’t through. We knew if we crossed the border without it, we could have been arrested or sent back to Ukraine but our hands were tied and we had to make a move that night.”
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