Brave NHS worker who told of little children being lined up and shot in war-ravaged Ukraine is set to return

A brave Greater Manchester NHS worker who told of little children being lined up and shot by Russian soldiers in war-ravaged Ukraine is planning to return for a second time to help train troops and hospital staff.

The NHS staff helped orphaned children and traumatised troops who had lost everything they owned and loved to Vladimir Putin's invasion. Medic Marta Roscoe, 37, from Bolton heard terrible stories - including one Ukrainian amputee describing how he 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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Marta, an administrator at Wythenshawe Hospital, was joined on a five-day trip last month by nurses Sister Louise Crossley-Birch, Janette Butterworth, vaccinator, mental health nursing assistant Michelle Piercy and paediatric intensive care nurse Nikki Forshaw-Mahon - and now they plan to return.

She said: "People were ecstatic to see such a professional team from England - they believe that British medics are the best. Some patients were happy to see us, some were just too traumatised to talk."

Marta, who carried a tourniquet in case she was shot, said: "You have to prepare for the worst - you never know." The team arrived back in Manchester on September 13 and she said the trip was 'successful'.

She added: "In the short time available, we managed to provide training and basic first aid to the medical teams in Lviv Hospital, civilians and 100 teenagers in an orphanage.

"With the knowledge and expertise of the team, we also managed to sort and catalogue the donated drugs in the