Thirteen drivers unable to fund their fuel and toll passes to return home are stranded at Northamptonshire truck stop

Standing in the rain in the middle of a Northamptonshire truck stop, a Ukrainian lorry driver video-called his wife and children, who grinned and waved at him on the screen despite the peril facing their country.

He is one of 13 drivers who have been stranded here for five days after the haulage companies they work for were unable to fund their fuel and toll passes in the midst of Russia’s invasion.

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