In the field hospital, where the wounded are treated during the bloody battles in Bakhmut, beaten, emaciated fighters are brought on stretchers, put on gurneys. The medical team triages their wounds and sends them for further treatment or back to the front to continue fighting.
Ukrainian photographer Evgeniy Maloletka published eloquent photos from the field hospital of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on his Instagram.
Anatoly, the head of the medical service, told the press photographer that his brigade treats dozens of soldiers every day and hardly has time to eat.
My doctors work almost non-stop. Before the full-scale invasion, we had 50-60 wounded in nine months of duty, and now sometimes more (than this number) in one day, he said.
Fighting hard against the Russian offensive, Bakhmut has become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance as his defenders resist relentless Russian army and heavy artillery fire aimed at securing Moscow’s stated goal of capturing the entire Donbas.
As more and more burdens are brought into the makeshift operating room, medics cut off their clothes and assess the damage.
In one case, they carefully remove a grenade from the pocket of a wounded soldier.
At the same time, the doctors themselves are also at risk – last Saturday, February 25, during a powerful shelling of the hospital, one of the doctors was injured.
The youngster noticed how the doctors gathered over the Ukrainian serviceman Vitaliy on the combat pseudo “Alpha”.
He groans in pain as the medics try to treat the large gash on his arm.
It was a tank shell,” Alpha says. “They were trying to break through. But they failed. We had a group of seven people. There are six left, now I am wounded, there are five of them. Four of them are shell-shocked, – wrote the Youngster.
Source: Racurs
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