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FULLICK’S UKRAINE RELIEF TRIP

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Team Brit’s Britcar Trophy racer Paul Fullick has just returned from his latest relief trip to Ukraine’s war zone using a van belonging to the alldisable­d team.

Former army officer Fullick was in a Ukraine Sunflower Aid convoy taking baking equipment to a recently bombed Kyiv bakery that supplies bread to the Ukrainian military and locals.

Fullick told Motorsport News: “At the beginning of the war a friend texted me to say that there was a guy in a pub who was trying to get some drivers together to potentiall­y take some aid out, and would I come along in an advisory capacity because I’m a lorry driver and I work a lot in Europe.

“I ended up becoming one of the founders of the charity that we then did trip after trip. Before long I became one of three people organising it. To date we’ve done just over 400 tonnes of aid; about £4 million worth of medical equipment.

“And at the very beginning I phoned [Team Brit boss] Dave Player and said ‘any chance you know someone with a van?’And Dave was straight out of the box, ‘take our van!’ The Team Brit van has been twice now.

“The people are really resilient, they are in the mindset that they are going to have everything back under control within the next year.”

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