Recording
She was screaming for everyone to stop shooting, even though no one was shooting anymore
A trauma surgeon from Dnipro on saving people after a missile hit an apartment building
Taras Hatsenko01/31/23
Medics at War
Testimonies of military doctors, paramedics, and field medics. Accounts of working in hospitals, basements, and field conditions, treating the wounded, medicine shortages, and organizing medical aid during combat operations.
9 Testimonies
- Recording
They told me that when I give birth, they’ll take the baby away
A female medic from the Armed Forces of Ukraine went through captivity while pregnant
Mariana Mamonova03/18/23 - Recording
I was sent to the transit prison, and my daughter to Zaporizhzhia
A military paramedic from Azovstal was separated from her daughter and sent into Russian captivity
Viktoriia Obidina11/01/22 - Recording
I realized: they’d taken me out to be executed
An anesthesiologist about being in captivity in Olenivka
Yurik Mkrtchian11/22/22 - Recording
I lost faith not just in Russia, but in people altogether
An anesthesiologist about the terrorist attack in Olenivka that killed 50 Ukrainian prisoners
Yurik Mkrtchian11/23/22 - Recording
No matter where a woman is, she always stays a woman on the inside
A female paramedic from Azovstal described what Russian captivity is like for a woman
Tetiana Vasylchenko11/02/22 - Recording
I’m in Mariupol, don’t tell Mom
A Ukrainian woman about her brother, an anesthesiologist, who was taken captive
Karina Mkrtchian07/01/22 - Recording
Ukrainians are my brothers. Not a single dirty look throughout the entire war
A combat paramedic with a Russian passport serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Anastasiia Leonova06/03/22 - Text
I stayed on my shift for 4 and a half extra months
A trauma surgeon lived and worked in a hospital basement in an occupied city for four and a half months
Yurii Kuznietsov11/10/22
