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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Daniel Boffey in Kyiv

EXPLAINED: Why second hand british cars end up on ukraine s frontline - The Real Truth

Second-hand British cars are being ferried to the frontline of the war.
Second-hand British cars are being ferried to the frontline of the war. Photograph: Handout

From Mykolaiv to Kyiv and Kharkiv, second-hand cars, pickup trucks and minivans bought in Britain and still bearing the familiar UK number plates are on the frontline of the war in Ukraine.

The incongruous sight is thanks to a fighters’ fund established by Serhiy Prytula, 40, a Ukrainian actor and comedian, who made his name with a Little Britain-style sketch show Faina Yukraina (Nice Ukraine) but now acts as an alternative quartermaster to the Ukrainian armed forces.

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