In a dingy medical outpost near eastern Ukraine's front lines, army medic Viktor battles to save lives on a daily basis.
Nearly a year into Russia's invasion, fighting now amounts to attritional duels of artillery and infantry assaults, with neither side making significant gains.
Describing the feeling of being unable to save a life, Viktor, a gynaecologist before the war, said:"It's the worst thing you can imagine." Evacuating soldiers from the frontline, via one of the team's five drivers, usually takes between 20 and 40 minutes, but the wounded sometimes find themselves waiting up to two hours if fighting doesn't let up.
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