Friends mourn New Zealander killed helping civilians in Ukraine

Bagshaw, 48, a twin New Zealand-British citizen, and British volunteer Christopher Parry, 28, went lacking this month whereas heading to the city of Soledar, within the japanese Donetsk area, the place heavy combating was going down.

Volunteers spoke of their recollections of Bagshaw and browse tributes from his household.

Kiwi aid worker Andrew Bagshaw in Ukraine. — Kiwi support employee Andrew Bagshaw in Ukraine. (Supplied)

Nikolletta Stoyanova, a pal in Ukraine, shared recollections of his bravery.

“Even if no one wanted to go to Soledar, they can do that. Because if he understood that someone needs help, they need to do this help for these people,” Stoyanova stated, talking in English.

Bagshaw’s father, Phil, informed reporters in New Zealand that his son wished to do one thing to assist.

“He was a very intelligent man, and a very independent thinker,” he stated.

“And he thought a long time about the situation in Ukraine, and he believed it to be immoral. He felt the only thing he could do of a constructive nature was to go there and help people.”

Ukrainian police stated January 9 that they misplaced contact with Bagshaw and Parry after the 2 headed for Soledar.

Their our bodies have been later recovered.

Bagshaw was a "joy to be around", family friend Barry Taylor says. — Bagshaw was a “joy to be around”, household pal Barry Taylor says. (Supplied)

A Ukrainian official reported on Wednesday that the defending forces made an organized retreat from the salt-mining city.

In a January 24 assertion, Parry’s household stated he was “drawn to Ukraine in March in its darkest hour.”

They stated he’d “helped those most in need, saving over 400 lives plus many abandoned animals.”

Friends stated the boys’s our bodies could be handed over to kinfolk within the UK.

In the south of Ukraine, Russian forces on Sunday closely shelled the town of Kherson, killing three individuals and wounding six others, the regional administration stated.

It stated the shelling broken a hospital, college, bus station, publish workplace, financial institution and residential buildings.

Among these reported injured have been two ladies within the hospital on the time: a nurse and a cafeteria employee.

Russian forces retreated throughout the Dnieper River from Kherson in November, however nonetheless maintain a lot of the province of the identical title.

This undated photo provided by the Bagshaw family, shows Andrew Bagshaw. Bagshaw, 47, a dual New Zealand and British citizen, was killed along with British colleague Chris Parry while attempting to rescue an elderly woman from the town of Soledar, Ukraine, when their car was hit by an artillery shell, Bagshaw's parents say. — This undated photograph offered by the Bagshaw household, exhibits Andrew Bagshaw. Bagshaw, 47, a twin New Zealand and British citizen, was killed together with British colleague Chris Parry whereas trying to rescue an aged girl from the city of Soledar, Ukraine, when their automobile was hit by an artillery shell, Bagshaw’s mother and father say. (AP)

On Sunday, Russia’s Foreign Ministry accused Ukraine and its Western allies of warfare crimes in reference to the shelling of two hospitals in Russian-held components of Ukraine.

Russian officers stated 14 individuals died on Saturday when a hospital within the japanese Luhansk province settlement of Novoaidar was struck.

They stated shells additionally fell on the territory of a hospital in Nova Kakhovka, a Russian-occupied metropolis in Kherson province the place a strategically important bridge throughout the decrease reaches of the Dnieper is positioned.

“The deliberate shelling of active civilian medical facilities and the targeted killing of civilians are grave war crimes of the Kyiv regime and its Western masters,” the Foreign Ministry stated.

“The lack of reaction from the United States and other NATO countries to this, yet another monstrous trampling of international humanitarian law by Kyiv, once again confirms their direct involvement in the conflict and involvement in the crimes being committed.”

People light candles to commemorate British volunteers Chris Parry and Andrew Bagshaw, killed in Ukraine's war-hit east, during commemorating service in a refectory near St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine. — People mild candles to commemorate British volunteers Chris Parry and Andrew Bagshaw, killed in Ukraine’s war-hit east, throughout commemorating service in a refectory close to St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine. (AP)

Russian forces have shelled a whole lot of hospitals and different medical services in Ukraine because the warfare started, decreasing greater than 100 of them to rubble, based on the Ukrainian Health Ministry.

Russian state TV aired footage of what it stated was the broken hospital in Novoaidar.

It stated rockets hit the pediatric division of the two-story constructing.

“There are no military factories here. There are no military vehicles, no tanks. Who did you shoot at?” Olga Ryasnaya stated in an interview on Russian TV, which recognized her as a pediatric nurse.

Luhansk province, the place Novoaidar is positioned, is nearly solely beneath the management of Russian forces or Russian-backed separatists. Russian and separatist officers alleged the hospital was intentionally focused.

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The actions of journalists are restricted in areas of Ukraine beneath Russian management.

The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based assume tank, stated Ukrainian forces have been probably growing strikes on Russian positions deep inside Luhansk province, nearer to the Russian border, in an effort “to disrupt Russian logistics and ground lines of communication.”

It stated the strikes might be a part of preparations for a future counteroffensive.

Source: www.9news.com.au