Olesiia, a medic with Ukraine’s 60th Mechanized Brigade who goes by her callsign “Panda,” sits inside the ambulance in eastern Donetsk Oblast on Jan. 24, 2026. (Patryk Jaracz / The Kyiv Independent)
For Ukrainian medics, one of the hardest parts…
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