Moas medics with a wounded soldier during a night evacuation which is the only time that staff can go to the front line. Photograph: Julia Kochetova/The Guardian. Inside, under the care of two watchful medics, is Ihor, an unconscious soldier wounded from the battle of Chasiv Yar, with shrapnel, perhaps from a mine, in his abdomen.
The crew know almost nothing about the casualty: they have no idea how he was injured or where he came from, and they have no name beyond the number 13 marked on his left hand, a method used by combat medics to aid subsequent identification. It is not uncommon to know so little – the reverse of the usual situation in a civilian hospital – such is the desperation of the war.began, the casualties from the frontline keep coming.
But it is not charitable work: Moas’s 150 employees are all Ukrainians paid local wages since it is not possible to build a consistent system with volunteers, particularly people from abroad who, even if they have helped out for a long time, will often want to leave at short notice.Casualties are ferried from the battlefield by their fellow soldiers, first carried then somehow transported to a network of stabilisation points operating several miles from the frontline.
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