The battle in Bakhmut has been bloody, with soldiers describing endless days of combat, often at close quarters. The wounded are stretchered into an evacuation bus by volunteer paramedics who work on the front line.
Some are still wearing their combat boots, small flecks of black soil from the battlefield clinging to their torsos, bare under the emergency blanket.With bandaged heads and splinted limbs, the wounded soldiers are stretchered into the waiting medical evacuation bus by members of the Hospitallers, a Ukrainian organisation of volunteer paramedics who work on the front lines in the war in Ukraine.
The soldiers were all wounded recently in fierce fighting in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, where Russian forces have been pressing advances. "We've been on tour in hell," Yura, who like all the soldiers would give only his first name for safety reasons, said.Blood stained the heavy bandages around his right forearm, which metal rods held together to stabilise the shattered bone.His bicep bore a deepening purple bruise left by the tourniquet applied to staunch the blood and save his life."They tried to get me with grenades," he said.He is Russian, but fought on the side of Ukraine in Bakhmut since November.
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