The co-founder of Factory Records, Alan Erasmus, has returned to Manchester following his humanitarian mission to Ukraine - but he is continuing his charitable work for families torn apart by the war.
Factory Records co-founder, 72, arrives in Ukraine to help refugees fleeing the fighting
11.03.2022 - 23:53 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The 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."
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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.
He clarified: "My plan wasn't to come and shoot people: I'm 72, my eyesight is crap, my hearing is even worse. It was always to identify areas of donation."
He arrived in Lviv at 1.30am, at the same time a large number of refugees were just arriving from further east. Alan shared a hostel room with a family about to be separated - the husband was leaving for the front.
"The plan was initially to make my way to Kyiv, I had the number for the head aid coordinator but his advice was to stay at Lviv and now I'm based here while I work things out.
"I've managed to book a room here for ten days, it was difficult to find somewhere to stay at first - when I arrived I was walking around the square at 1.30am full of people, families dressed for winter, with all their luggage as if going on holiday.
"But this was hundreds of people with their kids, their cats and dogs in cages, their entire lives packed up to leave."
Alan said people in Lviv are living in 'constant fear' of what will
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