Scott said: “You’re always concerned about what can happen. I’ve been hit with with entourage of artillery rounds or rockets. I’ve had several fighter jets fly, fly, real close.
“One was 1,000 metres less than 1,000 metres and the other one was right next to me.
“I would say I could see the pilot through the cockpit and he was very low, multiple times.
“You just keep your head on the swivel and you’re looking around and making sure that they’re not coming up your six to do a bomb run or anything.
“As far as the rounds and stuff I’ve been hit all the time. I got hit many times in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Do they make you nervous? And pucker? Yeah, yeah. But I’ve been close. Pretty close.”
Scott has also been arrested several times by suspicious Ukrainian police, but he was able to show him the contents of his van and convince them he was there to help.
Scott left behind his wife looking after his children as he went to Ukraine.
He said: “She knows I do stuff like this.
“She is scared for my safety. Very much. Which is reasonable.
“I have done stuff like this throughout my military career – it was something I was just good at doing.
“I don’t like bullies. I do not like tyrants.
“Putin is a big bully. He flexes his chest and people get scared and we need people to stand up against him.
“I will do whatever I can to help Ukranians to accomplish their mission and get Ukraine back.”
Two American veterans are currently missing in Ukraine and are feared to have been captured after fighting for the war-torn country.
Scott said: “One thing that really stinks about that is that they’re going to use that as a negotiating tool for America.
“I can probably guarantee that they are being tortured.
“I can be put in that position at any time. I am in Ukraine – anything could happen.
“I do get scared, but I just look to my faith and to God and just focus on him.”
The first family he saved came after a plea from a lady called Jana, who contacted him through his pastor, Craig.
She needed to extract her mother and grandmother, who were both stuck by heavy fighting in Donetsk, in south east Ukraine.
After saving them, he found that Jana and her fiancee had been postponing their wedding until she could have her family there, and he had been able to let them get married.
Eating just one meal a day, Scott makes sure that everything he has goes to the people he saves.
He said: “I just try to use all the funds to to use all the funds to go to to the Ukrainian people. Because, you know that’s that’s who really needs it.
“They’re leaving that country and they’re having to leave everything behind. So they get one bag to two bags, and that’s it.”
When he has kids with him, he always makes sure to stop for pizza as soon as they are out of Ukraine.
One mother, who Scott later realised did not know what she was ordering, mistakenly ordered two tiramisu for her and her son.
Scott laughed: “He ate both of them.
“I thought: his kid’s gonna be bouncing off the wall with all that coffee.”
But arriving in Bucha just days after Russian forces left, Scott found himself standing just metres from where authorities had found eight mass graves.
Yet he was stunned by the Ukrainian spirit.
One chaplain, who Scott said looked like Friar Tuck, jumped from a jeep as he was in the devastated village.
Scott, himself a Pentecostal Christian, described the scene: “This big old Chaplain jumps out with his big Chaplain hat and his bulletproof vest that was smaller than what it was.
“And he just he was just so jolly and smiling and happy.
“He shook everybody’s hand and pick people up and swung them around.
“It was just amazing to see that with everything that’s going on they’re still happy.
“They’re still smiling, they’re still resilient. They’re still out there, making sure that they’re still living their lives and not allowing this tyrant to overtake them.”
He sees this every day as he makes his way through the ravaged country.
Check point guards younger than his kids tell him how they appreciate his support and solidarity, even though what he does has not been sanctioned by the US.
As he travels back and forward, he sees not just the destruction, but the resilience as they clean away the rubble and rebuild.
One lady, who he had spoken to through an interpreter, told him: “We will fight to the end.
“We would rather die free than to be enslaved.”
