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A ‘terrible nightmare’: Treating Ukraine’s wounded civilians

An elderly patient is carried on a stretcher to board a medical evacuation train run by MSF (Doctors Without Borders) at the train station in Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, May 29, 2022. Across eastern Ukraine, hospitals in cities and towns near the front lines of the war are increasingly coming under pressure. One lifeline for the overstretched hospitals is a specially equipped evacuation train, run by the medical aid organization Doctors Without Borders. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) An elderly patient is carried in a stretcher to board a medical evacuation train run by MSF (Doctors Without Borders) at the train station in Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, May 29, 2022. Across eastern Ukraine, hospitals in cities and towns near the front lines of the war are increasingly coming under pressure. One lifeline for the overstretched hospitals is a specially equipped evacuation train, run by the medical aid organization Doctors Without Borders. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) A man walks next to heavily damaged buildings and destroyed cars following Russian attacks in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. The region, along with neighbouring Luhansk, is part of the Donbas, where Russian forces have focused their offensive. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) Debris hangs from a residential building heavily damaged in a Russian bombing earlier in the war in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, May 21, 2022. Kramatorsk hospital, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, has had to deal with war injuries before. The region, along with neighbouring Luhansk, is part of the Donbas, where Russian forces have focused their offensive. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) A nurse changes the bandages of a patient at Pokrovsk hospital in Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, May 22, 2022. Across eastern Ukraine, hospitals near the front lines of the war are increasingly coming under pressure. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) A nurse tends to a patient after he underwent surgery for injuries to his leg and abdomen caused by a mine explosion in Severodonetsk, at Kostyantynivka hospital, in Kostyantynivka, eastern Ukraine, Monday, May 23, 2022. Across eastern Ukraine, hospitals near the front lines of the war are increasingly coming under pressure. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) Doctor Ivan Mozhaiev attends to a patient during morning rounds at Pokrovsk hospital in Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, May 22, 2022. Across eastern Ukraine, hospitals near the front lines of the war are increasingly coming under pressure. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) Elderly patients in stretchers wait to board a medical evacuation train run by MSF (Doctors Without Borders) at the train station in Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, May 29, 2022. Across eastern Ukraine, hospitals in cities and towns near the front lines of the war are increasingly coming under pressure. One lifeline for the overstretched hospitals is a specially equipped evacuation train, run by the medical aid organization Doctors Without Borders. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) A woman is carried in a stretcher to board an evacuation train at the train station in Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, May 26, 2022. In wheelchairs and on stretchers, in ambulances and on the station platform, they wait. Medical staff pull out ramps and wheel the patients onto the specially equipped train that will carry them westwards, away from the fighting raging in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) An elderly patient is carried in a stretcher to board a medical evacuation train run by MSF (Doctors Without Borders) at the train station in Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, May 29, 2022. In wheelchairs and on stretchers, in ambulances and on the station platform, they wait. Medical staff pull out ramps and wheel the patients onto the specially equipped train that will carry them westwards, away from the fighting raging in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)