Inside Ukraine’s medical preparation for the new counteroffensive

“In the American army, critically injured troops are rescued within the hour. On our front line, it may be two days,” Oleksiy Dronov tells a platoon of soldiers. “Today, we will not become doctors. We’ll only learn to give each other enough time to get to a stabilisation point.”Dronov is a volunteer medical trainer from the Prytula Foundation, one of Ukraine’s largest charities that provides support services to the defence forces of Ukraine and aid to civilians affected by the war. His job is to prepare the soldiers for the inevitable casualties of combat. He and trainers like him are experts in the most up-to-date, NATO standard, tactical medicine. As the Ukrainian army becomes more westernised, so do its medical practices.Dronov and his team arrived in the morning, but the infantry troops he’s training were dropped into the forests of Ukraine’s Kyiv region days ago. Since their arrival they’ve dug…
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