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"In Bakhmout, it's a massacre": a doctor returning from Ukraine testifies

2022-12-20T17:23:35.239Z


INTERVIEW – The Russians have been trying tirelessly to take this locality in Donbass for more than eight months in battles of rare violence.


Arsene Sabanieev is a Franco-Ukrainian anesthesiologist-resuscitator.

He left for Ukraine after the Russian invasion on February 24 and spent three weeks in Bakhmout before returning to France.

The Russian forces, supported by the mercenaries of Wagner, are

determined to take the city transformed

into fields of ruin.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

visited there on Tuesday

.

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LE FIGARO.- How long did you stay in Bakhmout and what was your role as a doctor?

Arsene SABANIEEV.-

I left for Ukraine at the start of the Russian invasion and I went to several fronts, in particular to Kiev, Chernihiv, or near Donetsk.

And recently I was in Bakhmout where I stayed for about three weeks.

It's hard to do more: we work every day, 15 hours in a row, with no days off.

I worked in an advanced medical post.

The goal is simple: the soldiers brought the wounded directly to us in pick-ups from the front line...

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Source: lefigaro

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