240410 Ukraine combat medic Katarzyna Daniszewska Awangarda Russia war – Iona Cleave
UNDER a barrage of missiles and artillery fire, an exhausted combat medic drags wounded troops caked in shrapnel into a truck. Some are dead when she gets to them, others are crying.has spent two years in what she calls the “fire zone” - dodging death to save the lives of wounded soldiers while being targeted byThey are based frighteningly close to the enemy not in the “zero zone, but the fire zone” - a second frontline where “we are being shot at and targeted a lot of the time," she said.
“We don’t know how many exactly we’ve saved, we stopped counting after a year, we don’t care about numbers, because every person for us is a face. It’s a human being whose life we saved." Katarzyna said: “It's not as bad as being in the trenches, but it's also very dangerous, and unfortunately we are being shot at and targeted a lot of the time."Her team no longer marks their vehicles with red crosses or wear identifiable medic uniforms as “it would probably just kill us faster".Katarzyna said her team had suffered no fatalities, but had suffered plenty of wounds and near-misses.
Rather than hours, it can take days. “Sometimes wounded soldiers wait with just tourniquets on missing limbs with no pain relief for up to three days before we can get to them.”The types of wounds inflicted by 21st century trench warfare are also particularly devastating. In the end the fighting was so fierce they were completely overloaded with casualties further back “where we were being targeted, but a bit less fortunately”.The wounded troops' shell shock was so extreme that Awangarda had to adapt their drug and dosage quantities.
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