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Ukraine’s real killing fields: An investigation into the war’s first aid crisis

An investigation into the war’s first aid crisis

26 August 2023

9:00 AM

26 August 2023

9:00 AM

  Donetsk

 

It’s past midnight and I am standing in silence with the crew of a military ambulance on the edge of the Donetsk region. The village is dark to avoid attracting the attention of Russian drones. The paramedics move with quiet determination, lifting blood-soaked stretchers and ferrying moaning, injured soldiers from one vehicle to the next.

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