As Ukraine marks three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion, tonight Foreign Correspondent takes viewers inside the harrowing world of frontline medics battling to save wounded soldiers.
With exclusive access, tonight’s episode follows the doctors, nurses, and paramedics risking their own lives under relentless bombardment, performing life-saving procedures in trenches and makeshift hospitals.
From ABC:
In the three years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine hundreds of thousands of soldiers have died.
The number of soldiers wounded on both sides is far greater. Rescuing and treating the injured, often in extreme conditions, is a dangerous and sometimes deadly assignment.
With exclusive access to the Ukrainian medics – many of whom are volunteers – this film shows how they are working tirelessly to save and repair the lives of soldiers wounded in combat.
Under the bombs, in the trenches and in the operating theatres of dilapidated field hospitals, doctors, nurses and paramedics are regularly confronted with injuries they’ve never experienced.
This episode of Foreign Correspondent is an immersion into their world, a first-hand account of the impact of war and the determination by those to do whatever it takes to fight for the country they love.
