A British man has traveled 1,300 miles across Europe in a brave attempt to rescue his Ukrainian wife from the invaded country.

65-year-old Steve Lucas is a floor fitter from Magor, Wales, who decided to cross five countries and drive into embattled Ukraine to rescue his wife, 51-year-old Anastasia, from Kyiv.

As the businessman revealed, he became determined to act after his wife had called him in fear of her life saying her apartment was “shaking all the time” from bombing in the capital.

“I had told her to try and get to Poland a few weeks ago but she wanted to stay and held on until Friday but by then things were getting a little bit hairy,” Lucas told the reporters while on his way to the Ukrainian border.

“She sent me a photo of the skyline and there were flames everywhere, the building across the road was on fire and she said her apartment was shaking all the time. She was terrified and frantic to leave.

“I’m glad I told her to put tape across the windows because she said they just kept rattling all the time. She was too scared to go to the shelter and spent every raid on her own in the flat.”

As the brave man added, his wife’s friend eventually managed to evacuate Anastacia from the city and bring her to Lviv in the west of the country.

He explained: “He went through roadblocks and got here to the station where she took a train to Lviv.

“She was adamant that she wouldn’t leave unless she found someone to look after her cat Lucky but in the end he went with her – so I’ve got cat food, cat litter and a cat bed in the back of the van as well.

“By all accounts that was a nightmare journey, they were terrified they were going to get shelled but she made it to Lviv where she was put up in a complete stranger’s house and that’s where I’m going now to pick her up.”

Steve also revealed he was driving nonstop for 24 hours because he can’t wait to see his wife, hug her, and take her out of Ukraine.

Speaking of the situation in the war-ridden country, the 65-year-old added: “It breaks my heart to see what the Russians are doing to Kyiv, it’s such a beautiful city. The area where she lives has been bombed and there are bodies everywhere.

“She told me she had met an ambulance man who was carrying a dead child’s body – it’s awful what the Russians are doing.”

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