At a hospital a short drive from the scene of fierce fighting between Ukrainian and Russian troops in eastern Ukraine, two orderlies carefully carry an injured soldier onto a medical bus.
Four others soon join him on individual beds on board, while another four walking wounded using crutches limp up the steps to their seats.
The vehicle — emblazoned with sunflowers, the national symbol of Ukraine — is becoming a familiar sight on the main roads to and from the frontline in the east.
From the outside, it looks like any other long-distance coach criss-crossing the barren countryside.
It is however packed with the latest medical equipment and machines to help keep the most seriously injured troops alive.
The volunteer paramedics on board mostly see devastating injuries caused by mines, bullets and shrapnel, said Dmytro Sachkov, a trainee doctor whose studies were interrupted by Russia’s invasion last year.
The soldiers have already been evacuated from the battlefield by the military to local hospitals but need moving for longer-term or more specialist treatment elsewhere.
“We’ve never lost a patient on the way to hospital,” said the final-year medical student, 24, who goes by the call-sign “Dok”.
Source: The Guardian
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