Doctors at a military hospital in Kharkiv perform at least 50 complex surgeries every day. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion, the hospital has become one of Ukraine’s busiest front-line medical hubs, treating wounded soldiers from the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions.
Ukrainian military doctors regularly travel to the United States and Europe for training. But this summer, for the first time, a medical intern from the Netherlands came to this Kharkiv military hospital to learn from Ukrainian doctors, who are treating battlefield injuries on a scale rarely seen in European hospitals.
What a Dutch Medical Trainee Learned Inside a Ukrainian Military Hospital
To provide clarity in a complex world through fact-based storytelling about American policy, politics, and society.