A group of men from Guernsey have joined forces to send a generator "big enough to power a small village" to war-torn Ukraine.
The generator will be stationed in the city of Odesa, in south-western Ukraine, where it will be used to provide energy and infrastructure in a village there.
Guernsey businessman John Mellor donated the standby generator from an old empty building in St Peter Port.
Mellor said he could have sold the generator but preferred to give it to Ukraine.
He said Nick Reid helped organise the delivery while Marc Laine drove the generator from Guernsey to Ukraine - a journey of almost 2,000 miles.
Mellor said it was the third repurposed generator he had organised for Ukraine.
The first was sent to a hospital for injured serviceman and the second to a police headquarters for bomb disposal staff in western Ukraine, for which he was awarded a plaque from the National Police Department.
He said the third would be used to help power a small community in south-western Ukraine.
"If we can help, why not?," he said.
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