(12 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Near Avdiivka, Ukraine - 10 May 2024
1. Medics treating soldier
2. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) 'Artem' (call sign given for security reasons), Ukrainian soldier:
"A drone found us, a second drone immediately flew in. It saw our positions and immediately the mortar started working a couple of meters away, maybe five meters. Then I remember how I ran back, my eyes darkened and that's it."
3. Medics in field hospital
4. Patient on bed
5. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) 'Viter' (call sign given for security reasons), Ukrainian military doctor of the 47th Brigade:
"This is important for each of us. We must work for victory, for the salvation of our soldiers, heroes. Everyone who enters here, who is brought here, they are all heroes. They endure this, explosions every day, injuries. Some fighters return immediately after recovery to the unit, to continue to carry out their combat tasks. This is our duty. If we do not help each other, there will be no result."
6. Medical equipment
7. Various of medics treating soldier
8. Soldier lying on cot with cat on back
STORYLINE:
As the fighting continues on the frontline in Ukraine, Ukrainian military medics were working tirelessly to provide essential medical assistance to wounded Ukrainian soldiers on Friday.
Medics from the 47th Brigade treated soldiers in a field hospital as Russia advanced in the direction of Avdiivka.
"Avdiivka direction is one of the hottest directions of the front, so there is always a lot of work here," said a military doctor who goes by the call sign 'Viter' for security reasons.
Reporters from The Associated Press spent a day with the medics to get an understanding of the life they were leading.
"We must work for victory, for the salvation of our soldiers, heroes. Everyone who enters here, who is brought here, they are all heroes," Viter said.
One Ukrainian infantry soldier, call sign 'Artem,' suffered a concussion after a Russian mortar attack on their position.
Ukraine rushed reinforcements to its northeastern Kharkiv region on Friday to hold off a Russian attempt to breach local defenses, authorities said, signalling a tactical switch in the war by Moscow that Ukrainian officials had been expecting for weeks.
Ukraine previously said it was aware that Russia was assembling thousands of troops along the northeastern border, close to the Kharkiv and Sumy regions.
Although Russia's most recent ground offensive had been focused on parts of eastern Ukraine farther south, Ukrainian intelligence officials said they had expected an attack in the northeast, too.
The Kremlin's forces stepped up their bombardment of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, in late March.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine's military had anticipated this latest attack and had calibrated its response.
The Ukrainian army is on the defensive along the roughly 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line and is scrambling to build fortified defensive lines ahead of what officials believe will be a bigger Russian offensive.
Ukraine’s forces are outnumbered in infantry, armor and ammunition.
AP video by Vasilisa Stepanenko and Volodymyr Yurchuk
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