Evacuation of Wounded Ukrainian Soldiers from Hellish Tour

Wounded soldiers, including a Russian national fighting on the side of Ukraine, were evacuated from the eastern Donetsk region, where Russian forces have been making advances. The soldiers were stretchered into a medical evacuation bus by members of the Hospitallers, a Ukrainian organization of volunteer paramedics who work on the front lines. The battle in Bakhmut, a city now encircled on three sides by Russian troops, has been particularly bloody, with soldiers describing endless days of combat, often at close quarters. The medically equipped bus, named “Austrian,” can carry six severely wounded patients on stretchers, and several more walking wounded.