Online Exams, Frontline Service: A Ukrainian Medic's War

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10 ай бұрын

Ukrainian military medic Mykola Iliychuk took his final medical exams online because he was already serving on the front line of Russia's war on his country. Now, he's driving an armored ambulance and conducting triage among Ukrainian casualties.
Originally published at - www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-medic...

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@bigw813 10 ай бұрын

The Medics are real heroes.❤

@Volga_149.20_kHz 10 ай бұрын

Ukraine has committed untold numbers of war crimes in its over eight years of bombing the civilians of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, including routinely targeting ambulances, fire trucks, medics, rescuers, and their headquarters and stations. Many of the times Ukraine bombs such heroic rescuers, it is when they are on the way, or already on site, to help civilians often themselves also just bombed by Ukraine. On one occasion Ukraine targeted DPR Emergency Services in the village of Rubtsy, Krasnolymansky district, killing 13 personnel and wounding 9 more. Targeting medics and other rescuers is a typical, criminal, policy of the aggressor, to ensure those in need of help are deprived of it, to ensure that people who might have been rescued instead die of their injuries. The intentional targeting of ambulances and other emergency services vehicles and workers is against international law. It is something Israeli forces do routinely to Palestinian medics & rescuers, and which terrorists in Syria did to rescuers of the real Syria Civil Defence. Same terrorist tactics.

@brookwhiteman9810 9 ай бұрын

Bot stfu. How about you try fact check me. Someone who Telus on facts.

@kddel5588 9 ай бұрын

Pro russes les criminels sont les russes !!!

@Deltasquadformingup 7 ай бұрын

@@Volga_149.20_kHz ok? I respect all Medics regardless of there nation I respect ww2 german medics, I respect russian medics, viet cong medics there there to save lives and I respect that coould care less what there country is doing.

@WorldCitizen0000 10 ай бұрын

I'm glad to see this young medic managed to take his final exams under these difficult circumstances. I wish him all the best of luck doing the job he loves and helping to save lives. Medics are priceless! Slava Ukraine!

@user-McGiver 10 ай бұрын

the silent heroes... SLAVA UKRAINI...! 🔱🔰🔱🔰🔱🔰

@Volga_149.20_kHz 10 ай бұрын

Croatian President Zoran Milanović compared the Ukrainian patriotic chant “Slava Ukraini” to a Nazi salute. President Milanović told reporters that the Ukrainian slogan is a throwback to the killing of Jews and Poles during early 20th century conflicts in Eastern Europe. "This is the chant of the most radical chauvinists from Western Ukraine who collaborated with Nazis, who killed hundreds of thousands of Poles, Jews, and anyone else they got their hands on," Milanović said at the event. "These are the facts."

@user-McGiver 10 ай бұрын

@@Volga_149.20_kHz THEN IS SLAVA UKRAINI UP TO YOUR FACE KATSAP!... ALL TERRORISTS WILL PAY...!

@slicklandy7819 2 ай бұрын

@@Volga_149.20_kHz Yes, and he is wrong. It was slogan used well before WW2

@oldthudman 10 ай бұрын

I so admire the Ukrainian's.......They are fighting for their freedom........👍

@mikenolan6253 10 ай бұрын

Keep yourself alive and safe brother, keep soldiering on,slava Ukrania.

@KarmaKitten01 10 ай бұрын

I am in awe of their courage, determination, innovation and initiative. The methodical planning, intricate logistics and their professionalism, efficiency and unwavering defiance are obvious!!! Thank you 🙏 for sharing. Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Slava! 🇨🇦🫶🏻🇺🇦

@leontinaleal3251 10 ай бұрын

All Ukrainian doctor's and people are amazing brave they are Heroes.Glory to UKRAINE 🇺🇦👏💯 Glory to HEROES 🇺🇦👏💯🇵🇹

@Volga_149.20_kHz 10 ай бұрын

@grahamwalker2312 10 ай бұрын

And doing his meds finals online at the same time - what a guy ... and i'd guess that there are many others, both men and women, working in the same modest self-effacing way in the most difficult of circumstances.

@ivancho5854 10 ай бұрын

He's doing a very tough job. Ten casualties at once is a lot. He's a brave and good man. ❤️ Slava Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇬🇧

@argelynbasco6856 10 ай бұрын

One of the handsome heroes😍keep safe and continue of what you doing your country men really needs you.slava Ukraine✊✊✊✊✊

@ericwinenelson5373 10 ай бұрын

SLAVA UKRAINI💙💛💙💛

@JilynnFurlet 10 ай бұрын

Героям Слава!! 🔱🌠 Смерть оркам Хуйло!!! ⚰⚰⚰

@Soraab25 10 ай бұрын

God bless you Doctor you doing a good job for our country like you we need more doctors in the frontline . SLAVA UKRAINIAN 💙💛💙💛❤️

@relja8800 10 ай бұрын

God bless you man. Slava Ukraini, respect from Serbia.

@tracylim4129 10 ай бұрын

He saves lives under the most dangerous circumstances. Great hero!

@righteousbyfaithinChrist 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for these life saving vehicles that are preserving lives of medics and defenders.

@PegsFlamingoville 10 ай бұрын

So very brave! 🇺🇦

@ek8710 10 ай бұрын

God bless and protect this man and all others like him.

@sunshine4sue2 10 ай бұрын

🗽🇺🇸Such brave soldiers!🌻🗣️We stand with you🧑‍🤝‍🧑👭👬👫 🇺🇦🇺🇸 💙💛🫂with much Love from Indiana, USA🙏

@anderssvensk4317 10 ай бұрын

God bless him 🙏

@asanitationstompout8473 10 ай бұрын

Last night's RU bodycount: 490 corpses 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Russian KIAs up 246.1k+, WIAs up 720,030+, casualties total over 960,040 (minusrus|ukrinform) .. .. ..... ... Keep the mountains of corpses coming, UA... Pile as many high as they'll need to go. 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿😔 🇺🇸🇺🇦

@emiliobello2538 5 ай бұрын

Online exams are normally not a life or death situation but for him it is

@mikimosky4109 10 ай бұрын

That dude who pointed out at his brother is a true one.

@laura8486 10 ай бұрын

Awesome what you do ! Praying for you for your life, your noble work..as well as for your exams. May God bless Ukraine and her people! 🙏 🇺🇦💙

@user-vb1hy3li1h 10 ай бұрын

Glad to see the armor, all medics deserve it. Wish they had Blackhawks to get them there faster

@timandsuzidickey9358 10 ай бұрын

Amazing what they do !!!

@mdex8202 10 ай бұрын

Heroyam Slava ❤💙💛❤

@thefastandthedead1769 10 ай бұрын

It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.' The words from 1320 in the Declaration of Arbroath seem as applicable today as they were then. Slava Ukraini!

@ShR1000 10 ай бұрын

Inspiring

@marybroderick8265 10 ай бұрын

God bless and defend this medic❤

@southtexasprepper1837 9 ай бұрын

GOD Bless Military Medics! ❤

@len4319 10 ай бұрын

God please help the medic. God Jesus give Medics team the spirit of courage, confidence, wisdom, strength and concentration and protection. God help heals all wounded AFU, have mercy save them all. Angels of the lord help keep save them in all their ways. In the mighty name of Jesus is your shield, buckler, salvation and freedom. Heal wounded AFU save them Jesus. In God we trust. Shalom God bless you all. 🙏 💕🍀🙏

@mbarker1958 10 ай бұрын

I am amazed, if only the Russian people would do the same...

@JilynnFurlet 10 ай бұрын

*In their own d@mn country*!!!!

@Deltasquadformingup 7 ай бұрын

They do. We just don't see it. there are heroes on both sides

@peaceh3848 9 ай бұрын

勇敢に戦う英雄を助けて頂きありがとうございます。これからも戦う英雄の為にお願いします🙏🙏

@evak293 9 ай бұрын

True Heroes!! 💙💛

@viennaih 7 ай бұрын

❤

@abcdefghijklmnop2353 10 ай бұрын

IS THAT JACK BAILEY???

@aethelwolfwessex866 9 ай бұрын

As i heard in a video while watching whats happening in Ukrain some random soldier said " If you saved one life you are a hero but if you save a hundred life you are just a medic" 😄 - its a sarcasm btw don't be mad at me . Slava Ukraine 🔰

@nataliiateteruk585 10 ай бұрын

Ukraina will be nice after successful victory. Krym to Ukraina.

@conniepr 10 ай бұрын

Concerned about Typhus in Bakhmut from Russia leaving so many corpses. Will Ukrainian soldiers be alright?

@JilynnFurlet 10 ай бұрын

If they don't have to handle them and don't drink from dirty puddles they should be fine. If they are collecting bodies, there is biological hazard gear they can wear (and hopefully will be issued). Seems the stench is the worst, but while repulsive, I haven't heard of the chemicals causing the smell to be all that toxic.

@conniepr 10 ай бұрын

@@JilynnFurlet Yes they never complain.

@Volga_149.20_kHz 10 ай бұрын

Colonel Jacques Baud - a former head of Doctrine of the United Nations Peace Operations involved in programs in Ukraine after the Maidan Revolution of 2014 explained the origins of the conflict in Ukraine: «The conflict begins with those who, in the past eight years, have told us about ‘separatists’ or ‘independence’ for Donbas. This is incorrect. The referendums in the self-proclaimed republics of Donbas and Luhansk in May 2014 were not about independence (независимость), as irresponsible journalists called it, but about self-determination or autonomy (самостоятельность). Their use of the term ‘pro-Russian’ insinuates that there was Russian interference in the conflict, which was not the case. ‘Russian-speaking’ would have been more accurate. Remember that these referendums were held against Vladimir Putin’s wishes.» Western media are unwilling to see that this started as a struggle for a «white and pure» Ukraine, which led to repressive laws and physical violence against the Russian-speaking population in Donbas after 2014. The Maidan coup did not usher in a diverse democracy, as many seem to believe, but rather years of racist and neo-Nazi-motivated abuses against Russian speakers in eastern parts of Ukraine. According to Baud, the media have blinders on. The reason for the Western media’s blinders lies, he believes, in the fact that knowledge of this racism would undermine the accusations that Putin could not tolerate a Western democracy so close to Russia. But the resistance to Kyiv did not originate in Moscow. Instead, the resistance arose as a local popular movement in Donbas. This was confirmed by the Western-funded International Crisis Group on July 16, 2019: «The conflict in eastern Ukraine began as a popular movement […] organised by local residents […] They were concerned about both the political and economic consequences of the new government in Kyiv and their efforts to counteract the Russian language throughout the country.» The first legislative measure of the new government that was established with the overthrow of President Yanukovych was to repeal the 2012 Kivalov-Koleshchenko law, which made Russian the official language, on February 23, 2014. This decision caused outrage among the Russian-speaking population. All this led to a violent crackdown on the Russian-speaking regions (Odessa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Lugansk and Donetsk), which began in February 2014 and led to the militarization of the situation and some massacres; the most brutal occurred in Odessa and Mariupol. By the end of the summer of 2014, only the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Luhansk remained. At this stage, the overly rigid Ukrainian general staff failed to assert itself. An examination of the course of the 2014-2016 Donbas fighting shows that the Ukrainian General Staff systematically and mechanically applied the same operational plans. However, the war fought by the autonomists at that time was very close to what we could observe in the Sahel region: they were very mobile operations carried out with light equipment. With a more flexible and less doctrinaire approach, the insurgents were able to exploit the ineptitude of the Ukrainian forces to repeatedly "trap" them. In 2014, I was working for NATO as a small arms counter-proliferation officer, and we were trying to investigate Russian arms shipments to the rebels to see if Moscow was involved. The information we receive at that time practically all comes from the Polish intelligence services and does not "match" the information from the OSCE: despite the rather crude claims, we have not detected any Russian military arms and materiel shipments. The arming of the rebels is due to the defections of the Russian-speaking Ukrainian units that have gone over to the side of the rebels. As the Ukrainian setbacks progressed, entire tank, artillery or anti-aircraft battalions swelled the autonomous ranks. This is what made the Ukrainians commit to the Minsk agreements. But immediately after signing the Minsk 1 agreement, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko launched a massive anti-terrorist operation against the Donbass. Bis repetita placent : following the bad advice of NATO officers, the Ukrainians suffered a crushing defeat at Debaltsevo, which forced them to commit to the Minsk 2 agreements.