'A vicious war': Calgarian works to evacuate Ukrainian soldiers wounded in Bakhmut battle yyc
The Calgarian said he’s agreed to help evacuate Ukrainian soldiers wounded in the war’s longest, bloodiest battle on missions that could take him close to where Russian troops are threatening to break through the defenders’ lines.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Hughes said he’ll work with medics as an ambulance driver to move casualties in a sort of relay action, culminating in delivering them to hospitals farther behind the front lines. A paramedic volunteer with Hospitallers tends to a Ukrainian servicemen on a medical bus destined for a hospital in Dnipro on April 11. The soldier was injured during Russia’s attack on Bakhmut.“I have basic combat medical skills from my time in the PPCLI, but there’s some very good medics here,” he said.Konstantinivka, about 11 kilometres from where entrenched Ukrainian troops are being pushed slowly back in desperate street fighting in Bakhmut, in the country’s eastern Donetsk province.
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