🚜 During a visit to the front line, Ukraine’s fifth president Petro Poroshenko visited an underground hospital where wounded soldiers are being treated and delivered a new excavator to the military for expanding the shelter facilities.
Source: Bukvy
🪖 A complex system of tunnels, large enough for vehicles to enter, was previously built using equipment that Poroshenko had already provided to the army. Now the hospital will have its own excavator, as the need to expand the shelter is critical.
💬 “We drive the vehicle into the labyrinth… Medics just saved a soldier from the 95th Brigade. He had both legs amputated and nearly lost his sight — a mine injury,” Poroshenko said.
⛑ The hospital staff emphasized that underground shelters are vital, as this is the only forward surgical team in the Kursk direction. The construction of the underground hospital took about four months, and this is already the 5th or 6th location that had to be set up due to constant danger.
🔽 “The Command of the Medical Forces decided: the best place for a hospital is underground,” the military noted.
During his visit, Poroshenko also met with the medics, noting that they are all volunteers who joined the military at the start of the full-scale invasion.
“Some were well-known oncologic surgeons, some were perinatal doctors, others operated on children. They admitted: everything they know now, they’ve learned from the war. Because every day they receive severely wounded soldiers. Ambulances sometimes barely have time to switch places.”
“By the fourth year of full-scale war, few things surprise anymore, but this place takes your breath away. These underground tunnels were dug by one of the excavators we previously delivered to the military. And today, we fulfilled a direct request from the hospital and brought them their own excavator. They’ll be expanding. I thank you, friends, for your titanic work. Because your front line is saving lives. We’ll see each other again more than once!”.