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Ukraine: these wounded soldiers who arrive in Dnipro hospitals

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Injured Ukrainian soldiers in an ambulance before their departure for a military hospital in Dnipro, Friday June 17, 2022 (photo illustration).

AP - Efrem Lukatsky

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As the Battle of Donbass rages on, a large number of soldiers injured in combat are being cared for in various hospitals in Dnipro, most of which have converted parts of their hospitals to accommodate them.

Our special envoys were able to go to one of these hospitals.

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With our special correspondents in Dnipro,

In this wing of a hospital in Dnipro, converted to receive wounded soldiers, Kostyantyn, a soldier returning from eastern Donbass, is still shaken after a mine exploded near him.

Before February 24, I had never seen this kind of bombardment.

There, I saw how much it could fuse.

When it flies and falls around us and explodes, the adrenaline kicks in.

Now, everything depends on the artillery, we don't have enough of them, nor enough antitanks, and we lack combat planes.

Infantry will not suffice.

The soldiers all say today that they lack the means to repel the Russians.

Sergyi barely escaped the glare of a rocket that fell near his position.

We left Rubizhne at the end of April, because there was nothing left.

The Russians destroyed every street, every house.

They continued to bombard with everything they had: heavy artillery, mortars… We don't have the same resources.

They have a lot of soldiers, they throw them to the ground like during the Second World War, because “ 

 ”.

Doctors have been on the warpath since February.

This is the case of Valentyna, the director of this hospital.

We are ready to work all the time.

At first, we received a lot of patients, there was panic and confusion.

How could our so-called brothers attack us?!

We weren't afraid, because it's our job, we put people back on their feet.

Either way, we are fighting for every life.

We are doctors, we treat, we help, and we hold the back line.

Despite the misunderstanding that weighs on their daily lives, soldiers and doctors say they are ready for the months to come.

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