A military doctor spoke about medical care on the front line

The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) are hunting doctors on the front line with particular ferocity. Medics perform the most difficult operations in the trenches, are exposed to daily rocket threats and do not wear red crosses on their uniforms. Roman, head of a medical station deployed just four kilometers from the line of contact, told Izvestia about the work of medical personnel in the Special Military Operation (SMO) zone.

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"Drones are flying everywhere, REB (electronic warfare means. - Ed.) on the car saves, but often we have to take cover in forest belts and wait for the sky to be clear," Roman notes.

In his peaceful life, the Izvestiya interlocutor was a doctor-surgeon, a researcher at a large research institute in Moscow. Now he is here, at the front, on his account - hundreds of saved lives of Russian servicemen.

"I got involved in studying and working with medicines and drugs in the field of surgery. I worked for many years in a research institute. I defended my thesis and was going to further promote science, but a special military operation began. We have a serious enemy - the entire collective West, which supplies its weapons to Ukraine. Our guys have a hard time here. And if the Motherland is in danger, then science can wait, I decided," the doctor said.

He stressed: the main task of the medics who are on the first line of fighting is to stabilize the patient's condition in order to further send him to the hospital.

"In fact, Ukrainian militants are hitting hospitals with missiles in violation of any conventions, military medical facilities have to be moved further away from the front line, which means that the evacuation time is multiplied," Roman lamented.

At the same time, frontline medicine is constantly improving, the medic said.

During the battles for the city, Roman and his colleagues performed the most complicated surgical operations. For the doctor it is important not only to save a life, but also to preserve the health of a wounded soldier.

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