Chris Garrett, 40, was killed while carrying out work for an explosive clearance team near Izyum, Kharkhiv Oblast in eastern Ukraine.
The i Paper had interviewed him several times, most recently in March, where he spoke about the scale of the demining operation in Ukraine requiring more than 100 years.
He told The i Paper: “We have to deal with each stage as it comes. We’d like people to give the families time to process this information, and we’ll release statements shortly.”
Chris Garret, a British bomb disposal expert, has been killed in an explosion in Ukraine (Photo: Instagram@bring_me_the_swampy)
Originally from the Isle of Man, Mr Garrett first travelled to Ukraine in 2014 and had worked for years as a bomb disposal specialist on and off the frontline.
A former tree surgeon, his work alongside Ukraine’s military saw him sentenced in absentia to 14 years in a penal colony by a kangaroo court in Russian-controlled Donetsk, a punishment he shrugged off.
(Originally from the Isle of Man, he had first travelled to Ukraine in 2014 Photo: Instagram@bring_me_the_swampy)
Footage showed him and his team scrambling for cover after Shahed unmanned combat aerial vehicles exploded, as Russia targeted energy infrastructure in the port of Odesa.
In 2022 at the start of the war, he helped clear around 50 tonnes of explosives from areas like Irpin and Bucha, the sites of Russian atrocities against civilians, and Hostomel, the airport near Kyiv, where Ukrainian forces repelled Moscow’s paratroopers in a fierce battle.
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He described how Russian forces stuffed hand grenades into washing machine drawers as they booby trapped civilian premises indiscriminately.
Russian artillery was pounding the area forcing the team to dig foxholes for shelter or retreat in their vehicles during heavy bombardments.
He previously helped set up a de-mining operation in Burma, where he learned “on the job” from EOD experts, before defusing “bigger and bigger munitions” in Ukraine.
At the start of the war, he worked alongside Nate Vance, a cousin of US Vice President JD Vance in Ukraine as part of an ordnance disposal team.
The UK Foreign Office advises against all travel to Ukraine, including for the purpose of fighting, and has urged British nationals to leave Ukraine immediately when safe to do so.
A Foreign Office spokesperson said: “We are in contact with the local authorities following the death of a British national in Ukraine.”
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