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Ukrainian surgeon operates on wounded soldiers in a TV truck

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Ranny żołnierz

Credit: ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/East News

Ranny żołnierz.

When war broke out, a maxillofacial surgeon turned a TV broadcast truck into an operating room for wounded soldiers.

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For eight years, Dr. Miron Ugrin has been serving Ukrainian soldiers fighting against Russian aggressors at the front. When war broke out in eastern Ukraine, this maxillofacial surgeon turned a TV broadcast truck into an operating room, where he operates on wounded soldiers.

For him, he says, the war didn’t start on February 24. "It’s been going on for eight years. I performed my first military surgery during the Maidan Uprising," he explains in an interview with the PAP agency.