An ex-squaddie British dad says he is jetting off to fight in Ukraine - because he is 'not doing much with life'.

Harvey Hunt, 50, is booked to fly from Bristol to Rzeszów, Poland tomorrow (4/6), where he will then try and link up with fellow fighters.

He says he has been told to head to the border via the E40 - a pan-European road - and present himself as a former serviceman.

Harvey, who says he served in the Royal Artillery as a gunner, will then make his way to a petrol station in the Ukrainian town of Novoiavorivsk, which is on the road to Lviv.

He says was told there will be a regular shuttle of buses or cars there that would pick him up and take him towards the fighting.

Ex-lorry driver Harvey, from Minehead, Somerset, said: "I've got military training, I'm not doing much with my life - I want to help.

"I'm sitting watching the news, and I'm thinking 'I can get off my a** and help them'. I can hold a gun and shoot it.

"I think [the situation] is disgusting. I think Russia should b***** off and leave all the kids and women."

Filmed 2nd March 2022.