Purtin is pissed at Ukraine attacks on Russia soil….
Ukraine says it continue since Russia sent over 100 missiles/drone at it several days ago…
A look at the lives of the Ukraine Emergency Medical Service working the conflict….
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Volodymyr Zelenskiy vows to unleash ‘wrath’ on Russian forces in 2024. But the Ukrainian president’s new year’s address made almost no direct reference to the situation on the frontline or the limited success of a counteroffensive launched in June.
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Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of New Year’s Day attacks. Five people have been killed in attacks on Ukraine’s southern Odesa region and the occupied eastern city of Donetsk.
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Ukraine claims Russia has launched a ‘record number’ of attack drones. Ukraine’s Air Force said 87 out of 90 drones had successfully been shot down in the hours leading into New Year’s Day.
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Vladimir Putin calls Ukrainian strikes on Belgorod ‘terrorist act’ that will ‘not go unpunished’. Russia’s president said it would continue to strike “sensitive” military targets in Ukraine.
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The death toll following Ukrainian strikes on Belgorod has risen to 25, according to region’s governor. Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Monday a four-year-old girl died from injuries sustained in the attack….
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A look at the Ukraine Emergency Medical Service at the WashPost…..
…At and were living in countries across Europe. There was no one to look after them. One call brought her to a man, paralyzed and emaciated, who couldn’t feed himself. Another call led to a couple reliant on social services, their soiled underclothes changed only once a day.
The medics’ jobs were changed by the war. During the counteroffensive, they’d followed the front lines, carting wounded soldiers to nearby hospitals, some with missing limbs. With increased shelling, patients became harder to stabilize, their bodies punctured in multiple places by shrapnel.
Once, at another medic base, Peshykova had been 300 yards away when a massive aerial bomb exploded, blasting the building’s windows and shaking her to her bones.
“In the beginning, we used to go to shellings every day,” she said. “Everybody wants all this to be over.”
A stethoscope draped around her neck, Peshykova had sparkly nails and fluffy bangs. She showed photos of her 12-year-old son — she was raising him alone after divorcing the boy’s father, who was currently serving in the army — to her colleagues. She was handling a lot. But she would not give up.
Dressed in their red uniforms — striped with reflective tape — they waited….