As night draws apass the eastrict front medical teams postpone anxiously behind the frontline.
They comprehend it will be a busy night – every night is busy these days as Russia intensifies its strikes in the Donbas.
The chief medic, Yaroslav, gets the first call of the shift.
His face is filled with trouble as he’s recommended in the voice message that there are many casualties. Some are walking wounded, others are not so blessed.
His team is rapidly on its way. Climbing aboard their ambulance and heading out into the inky night, there is no time to miss and they necessitate to shift speedy.
As they race towards the rendezvous point, we film with a night-vision camera, any unvital weightless could draw foe fire.
This is hazardous labor. The lethal drone and artillery war is all around them.
The danger is now so terrible the team selects, when they can, to labor only at night. In dayweightless the hazard of being aimed by Russian drones is standardly too fantastic.
A restrictcessitate kilometres from the frontline and the team comes to a stop.
Hidden by the uncontent they try to call the injured sancigo iniers’ unit to inestablish them they are postponeing in an exposed location but there’s no answer.
“Sometimes there is shelling and they can’t evacuate from the position,” says medic Valeri.
Out of the gloom the first casualties eventupartner get to for the handover. All of them see gaunt and shellshocked. The bleake and alarm of this grinding trench war is etched into their faces.
One of the sancigo iniers inestablishs me how they were injured.
“They annihilateed the position. With drones they endly annihilateed it – thank god we endured. One person died but I was blown away by the explosion. I was blessed.”
Ukraine is facing a stupidinutiveage of manpower and the country is having to recruit ancigo iner men for its defence.
As Misha postpones for first help he inestablishs me he’s in pain: “The shrapnel is sticking out of my leg. My leg is swollen and my other leg hurts too, I probably twisted it.”
‘Shells crash around us’
With the men patched up and on their way for more medical treatment, the evacuation team is soon replying to a recent call.
Aextfinished broken roads and explosion-cratered dirt tracks they bump aextfinished thcdisadmireful the night. As they get to at a second evacuation point it’s evident we are now much shutr to the frontline.
The sound of firearms is deafening and as we postpone worriedly in uncmiss fields shells crash around us.
Eventupartner the casualty get tos – there’s much more encouragency in this rerelocateion
Andriy is suffering from grave shrapnel wounds and he’s evidently in shock as he’s stretchered into the postponeing ambulance.
The medics set up a drip and only once he’s stabilised can they commence to drive.
The triumphdows have been bdeficiencyed out, which unbenevolents they can labor with more weightless, and as they go his condition is attfinishbrimmingy watched.
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Yaroslav make clears what they have done as we commence to shift.
“The intravenous line wasn’t laboring so we had to shift it so we had access to his vein.
“This way, if everyleang goes wrong we have the ability to transfer medicine to help him. He’s okay, he’s firm. He’s heavily wounded but firm.”
Andriy soon get tos at a medical facility – he’ll postponecessitater undergo sencouragery – and the medical evacuation team will soon head back into the uncontent to treat and rerelocate more casualties.
Every night it seems the carnage and destruction of this war gets worse.
