MP Jack visits war-torn Ukraine

WINTERBOURNE'S MP Jack Lopresti has recently returned from a visit to Ukraine.

The Filton & Bradley Stoke Conservative MP, who chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Sovereign Defence Manufacturing Capability, visited the "destroyed town" of Irpin as well as the capital Kyiv.

He said that in Irpin, he was "surrounded by homes similar to the ones we live in and the same cars that we drive".

Mr Lopresti added: "All that was left behind by the people fleeing for their lives were

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discarded shoes, clothes and a few wrecked vehicles. I saw the complete annihilation of a community.

"On the outskirts of Irpin I saw what the local Ukrainians referred to as the Cemetery of Burnt