As Russian troops retreated from the city of Kherson, which Putin tried to annex, Ukrainian soldiers advanced cautiously and medics braced for new casualties.
MYKOLAIV REGION, Ukraine — The medics waited at an evacuation point certain they would have work to do as Ukrainian troops pushed toward Kherson city after Russia said it would retreat from the regional capital. Some Ukrainian officials warned of an ambush. No one expected the Russians to go quietly.The medics’ first call came just after noon on Thursday: two soldiers injured by a Russian booby trap.
“You’re good,” the medics assured the wounded men as they loaded them into the ambulance and raced toward a hospital. Sobolevskiy, 52, turned on the siren as they approached a first checkpoint, crossed himself as they passed a church and then pulled up in the emergency bay. Once the wounded were whisked inside, he stood by the ambulance, smoking.“Winter is coming,” he said, ash falling from the cigarette in his slightly shaking hand.
As Ukrainian troops moved into areas that had been under Russian control just hours earlier, they were encountering pockets of enemy soldiers left behind to protect the Russian withdrawal, as well as they the expected mines and booby traps.“The Russian military is very intensely mining the areas they leave,” Roman Kostenko, a Ukrainian army colonel and member of parliament, said in an interview. “That’s why we’re moving forward at this tempo.
Sobolevskiy and Bakhmach disinfected their blooded stretchers before putting them back in their battered ambulance.When a white minivan arrived an hour later, it was too quiet — no one moaning, grunting, or cursing in pain. Soldiers from the 59th brigade, which is stationed near the front, pulled out a black body bag.
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