1909: Bloody November

“1909” in the title is not the year Stepan Bandera was born, and Edwin Perry became the first to conquer the North Pole. This is the number of sick and wounded cared for by volunteer medics of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital last month. This means that, on average, more than 60 patients passed through PFVMH daily. Each is someone’s son, husband, father or daughter, wife, sister…

This is the price we pay for the right to determine our own future. A high, terrible, but justified price. Because the 20th century had to teach Ukrainians that a lost war for independence turns into millions of people killed in Holodomors, tortured to death in prisons and exterminated in camps…

Our ambulances in Bakhmut and Lyman work non-stop. The surgeons and traumatologists who work at the stabilization points drop with fatigue in the evening, get up in the morning and start the battle for the lives of our wounded soldiers again. Our therapists and rehabilitationists in Slovyansk care for defenders who escaped injuries but were overtaken by illnesses…

Our ambulance drivers cover thousands of miles per month of the Donbas roads and off-road. The mechanics and technicians restore dozens of broken evacuation vehicles to life every month. The cooks feed those who save lives. The rear team receive, buy, sort and ship tons of much-needed aid to the front…

1909 patients in November! Thanks to the dedicated work of volunteer medics and the big but tight-knit logistics team of PFVMH, someone will return home, and someone will return to active service. Someone will be able to hug a son, husband, father or daughter, wife, sister. Someone has not lost a brother or a sister in arms. Someone’s limb was saved. And someone was saved from pneumonia…

Fighters of our glorious Armed Forces are destroying the enemy who brought death and ruin to our land – our medics face death itself every day…

And it is you who equip the volunteer medics with everything they need with your donations!