PFVMH deployed a state-of-the-art mobile hospital in Kyiv Oblast
In one of Kyiv Oblast’s localities where Russian orcs destroyed the hospital, PFVMH deployed a state-of-the-art mobile hospital donated by the Danish government. Tents and equipment, including heavy-duty power generators and an oxygen station, were installed by Ukrainians under the guidance of Danish experts who shared their knowledge and skills in deploying and organizing work […]
- 03 July 2022
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PFVMH lends a hand to the military, expanding their medical care and evacuation capacity – Viktor Chalavan
The fresh video portrait, “painted” by journalist Dmytro Tuzov in the interior of the Russian-Ukrainian war, presents Viktor Chalavan (nom de guerre “Mullah”), a national security and defense expert and adviser to the interior minister of Ukraine. From the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Viktor led the Special Task Force police department, which was in […]
- 02 July 2022
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A U.S. billionaire donates two Humvees to PFVMH
A billionaire and founder of a global company from the United States procured two sanitary HMMWV vehicles for the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital. The benefactor, whose name is not disclosed, bought the vehicles and an export license and arranged their delivery first to Warsaw by plane and then to the PFVMH base near Kyiv […]
- 23 June 2022
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Volodymyr “Hard” Kharchenko: “History demands that we stop this horde”
Volodymyr Kharchenko begins his conversation with journalist Dmytro Tuzov with the famous saying: “Anyone who has been to a war knows that it is frantic boredom punctuated by moments of frantic terror.” He doesn’t elaborate on the topic of boredom, but as to terror, he seems to have had more than enough. An associate professor […]
- 18 June 2022
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Awards find their heroes. Regretfully, not all
The state machinery works slowly but does work. After the Kyiv Campaign was over, I petitioned the President for awarding volunteers of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital who participated in the defense of Kyiv and Zhytomyr. Exactly two months later, the awards found their heroes. Regretfully, not all of them… The decree “forgot” about […]
- 17 June 2022
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“Absolutely nothing is safe in Donbas region” – Sky News
The wave of media reports on medics at war, the First Pirogov Volunteer Mobile Hospital in particular, yesterday picked up Sky News with a story and videos. The reports feature PFVMH medic “Scythian” and bodyguard Van Damme. Ambulances are protected under international law but Van Damme says nothing is safe in the Donbas. “No, absolutely […]
- 16 June 2022
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California dreamin’: Jennifer might return someday to live in Ukraine
One more report by journalist Dmytro Tuzov about the work of PFVMH at the front is dedicated to Jennifer, an emergency nurse from California who was deployed twice in Afghanistan. In May 2022, Jennifer worked as part of a PFVMH ambulance crew. “When I was younger and was studying history, I read about the Nazis,” […]
- 15 June 2022
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How medics save lives at the front line
According to the Ukrainian president, half a thousand Ukrainian servicemen are wounded every day on the front. Journalists of Hromadske visited hospitals in Donbas, the hottest section of the front line. They spoke with doctors of base hospitals, military surgeons, commanders and privates of medical companies, volunteer doctors, and wounded soldiers. They often sew up […]
- 14 June 2022
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Volunteer doctors risk their lives on Ukraine’s front line – CBC News: The National
Canada’s CBC News: The National aired a short report on how volunteer medics save the lives and health of the wounded at the frontline of the war with Russia. The Canadian journalists included in the video episodes from one of the evacuations carried out by PFVMH and a blitz interview with “Scythian,” one of its […]
- 13 June 2022
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Doctors at war
One part of the Suspilne Novyny project on doctors at war is dedicated to civilian medics stationed close to the frontline who save the lives of both soldiers and civilians, who are under incessant shelling in the active combat area. The story also features four PFVMH medics who tell about themselves and their work in […]
