Little children lined up and shot by Russian soldiers in front of horrified neighbours, says NHS nurse
15.09.2022 - 08:51
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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.
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"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. Mum-of-two Marta added: "It was heart-breaking to see young men in their twenties without legs. The atmosphere was so heavy, there were people there who had lost everything and had nothing to go back to.
"This is not just a war between the army, civilians are suffering the most. They have literally got nothing to come back to - they have lost their families, houses, businesses, their animals.
"I heard of one man who jut let his horses go wild to run for their lives when he heard the Russian soldiers were coming. He ran to