Richard Woodruff, founder of the Front Line Kitchen in Ukraine
A British volunteer at a frontline kitchen in Ukraine has become a ‘target’ for the puppets of Russian forces.
Richard Woodruff, a chef from Crowborough, in East Sussex, has been helping the war effort by cooking meals and delivering them to trenches for more than a year.
Despite continuous bombings on the western city of Lviv, the founder of the Front Line Kitchen has also been organising the transfer of humanitarian aid to soldiers.
But the 30-year-old has since shared a disturbing update with his Twitter followersabout his work.
Richard has been cooking meals and delivering them to soldiers
Richard said: ‘I will no longer be heading to the frontlines, to put it simply we have foreign volunteers going missing.
‘I have been warned by my contacts in Ukraine that I am a target.
‘I love Ukraine but I will turn up dead if I continue. I trust in others to deliver what we raise now but I will aim to stick slightly further back then ground zero.
‘Part of me wants to continue regardless of the threat but I need to listen to the experts on this one and not put soldiers/ foreign soldiers at risk having to save my ass.’
Emma Igual, a Spanish aid worker who worked for the international humanitarian organisation Road to Relief (Picture: AFP)
Anthony Ihnat, a Canadian aid worker also killed in the strike (Picture: AFP)
Richard later insinuated that it is people ‘operating on behalf of the Russian army’ who would target him.
His comments came just days after the body of ex-soldier Daniel Burke was found in Ukraine.
The former paratrooper turned military volunteer, from Manchester, was reported missing from his flat in Zaporizhzhia by his family on August 16.
Days before his remains were discovered, two foreign aid workers were killed and two others wounded in eastern Ukraine, officials said on September 10.
A van carrying the four aid workers ‘came under Russian attack’ near the town of Chasiv Yar, their organisation Road to Relief said on Instagram.
Canadian Anthony Ihnat died in the attack, while German medical volunteer Ruben Mawick and Swedish volunteer Johan Mathias Thyr were seriously injured.
Road to Relief could not trace the whereabouts of its director, Emma Igual, a Spaniard who was also in the van, but Spain’s acting foreign minister has since said they had received ‘verbal confirmation’ of her death.
There is no evidence yet to support suggestions that they were targeted by the enemy soldiers.
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