Under Fire and Understaffed: The Fight to Save Ukraine’s Wounded

A fight medic, pouring with sweat after carrying the wounded out from their positions, paced the room anxiously as docs labored on the boys, earlier than heading again to the entrance line.

“Around 10 rockets from a grenade launcher landed nearby,” the soldier, Batya, 51, mentioned, describing the assault on their place. Still reeling from a concussion, he mentioned he had grabbed a medical package and run out to assist the wounded. He got here throughout the primary wounded soldier, Vorchun (Grumpy), within the nearest bunker and bandaged his face and fingers, after which discovered his good friend Shuravi, 57, who had been dragged right into a trench with a chest damage, he mentioned.

“He was probably in the open when he was hit,” Batya mentioned, slumping in a chair, his head in his fingers.

The three males from the a hundred and tenth Brigade would survive, mentioned Romashka, a quiet, calm officer who heads the stabilization level. Romashka, whose name signal means Daisy, known as the subsequent medical put up: “I’m sending you six guys, two yellow, the rest green.”

The subsequent day, the a hundred and tenth Brigade took half in an assault, taking heavy casualties. At night time, all 4 tables have been occupied by troopers with extreme leg accidents that would wish amputation, mentioned a Swedish volunteer fight medic, who that his title not be printed for safety causes. The subsequent morning, troopers carried out physique components in black baggage for disposal.