British volunteer lost arm and leg during evacuation: how treatment is progressing.

A British volunteer who helped evacuate from Pokrovsk was injured by an enemy FPV drone attack. As a result of this incident, he lost an arm and a leg. Edward shared details of what happened with 'Suspilne'.

Edward is currently in the intensive care unit of one of the hospitals in the Dnipropetrovsk region. The man recounted that on January 30, they were evacuating a relative from Pokrovsk and, when leaving the city, they stopped to hand over a brochure with contacts to civilians.

Edward recalls that as soon as he closed the car door, he heard the drone and reported it to the group leader. A few seconds later, a powerful explosion occurred right in front of the volunteer's face. He says he initially did not understand what had happened and even tried to continue moving, but it didn’t work. Instead, he applied a tourniquet on himself, but this did not help either. Edward was saved by his colleague.

'At that moment, the group leader ran around the car, opened the door, dragged me out onto the street, and applied the tourniquet. He saved my life. Then he put me in a vehicle with military evacuation along with a man who had a head injury. At that Time, everyone was injured, but I was the most severely hurt,' the volunteer recounted.

Military medics transported the Brit to the nearest medical facility, where the amputation of his left arm and leg was performed. The general director of the Dnipropetrovsk hospital, Serhiy, noted that Edward had received more than six liters of blood transfusion before being transported to the region.

The medic remembers that the volunteer was brought in very serious condition, but thanks to the work of the trauma surgeons, the man quickly began to recover. He even started joking that now he is the most right-wing because he has no left limbs.

The Brit arrived in Ukraine in October 2022, bringing humanitarian aid to frontline cities. In December of last year, he joined the evacuation group that takes people out of Pokrovsk and surrounding settlements.

In the Dnipropetrovsk hospital, the volunteer will stay for one more day, and then go to Kyiv for further treatment and rehabilitation. He stated that despite everything that happened, he plans to remain in Ukraine.

'This country has given me much more than any other. I have been traveling the world for almost ten years. I lived in Great Britain until I was 18. After that, I didn’t go back to Great Britain for ten years. I have seen many amazing places in the world. But here I feel at home,' Edward emphasized.

We remind you that the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Oleksandr Syrskyi, stated on February 3 that Ukraine has begun implementing organizational reforms to transition to a 'corpus structure.' The American Institute for the Study of War analyzed what this means for Ukraine.