The heartbroken mother of a British hero who was killed dismantling Russian mines in Ukraine has paid tribute to her ‘modest’ son who saved thousands of lives.
Brave Christopher Garrett - known to friends as Chris or ‘Swampy - died in an explosion on Tuesday while working on the frontline Izyum, near Kharkiv.
The father-of-one, 40, had worked tirelessly in the region since war broke out in Crimea in 2014, before returning to the frontline once again when Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022.
Speaking from her home in Peel on the Isle of Man, his mother Hazel, 70, told MailOnline she would be ‘forever proud’ of the work her former tree-surgeon son carried out across the war-torn nation.
She said: ‘I feel so proud of him. He was always very loving and always an adventurer.
