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Video shows an award-winning humanitarian's work in Ukraine - including helping wounded kids and training medics inside bunkers.  Professor Mark Hannaford co-founded Medics4Ukraine in 2022 alongside paramedic Luca Alfatti.  He has now released video of his work there - training medics and providing aid.  Mark, of Beer, Devon, and his team delivers medical aid, as well as providing training in medical trauma to front-line soldiers and medical professionals.  Pictures taken throughout Mark's time in Ukraine show him visiting wounded soldiers in hospitals, training medics inside underground bunkers to avoid attack, and teaching CPR to those on the frontlines.  Others show members of the organisation assisting wounded children, handing out medical supplies, and travelling cities in ambulances while wearing bulletproof vests.  Mark has now been awarded a medal by the head of military commission in Lviv for his efforts to support and train local medical professionals in the country.  Medics4Ukraine has so far provided over £3m of medical aid, and trained over 800 medical professionals.  "It was a visceral reaction, really, to the unfairness," Mark said, describing the motivation to create the organisation.  "We've been used to peace in Europe and development and prosperity for so long.   "To have an aggressive invasion like this, which really changes the whole face of Europe, just seemed to be completely unreasonable and unfair - the amount of death, and the millions of refugees they're creating.  "We deliver trauma supplies to hospitals, units, and to clinics, but we also train large groups of people in Ukraine.   "Then we take suppliers with us for that training so that the students walk away with trauma suppliers and first aid kits and stuff like that.  "We originally thought we'd be going for six months, and our aim was to raise £100,000 - but two and a half years later, we're on about £3.4 million.  "We've trained around 900 people with programmes that are looking to train even bigger numbers.''  Mark described scenes at a maternity hospital attacked by Russian forces, and the resilience of the Ukrainian medics and teams supporting them.

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00:00So we're on Kershawn Island and it's it's a pretty big part major part of the city

00:05but it's like the whole place is it's like a ghost town there's signs of

00:10shelling the sounds of shelling and artillery attacks rocket attacks and

00:15what would have been it seemed like a pretty vibrant sort of community here is

00:20completely deserted there were a few people wandering around there were dogs

00:24are wandering around you see the dogs running you know the artillery is

00:27beginning to pick up the front line is only about a hundred meters away where

00:32the where the river is so this is kind of the active hot zone of the city and

00:38yeah it's there's nobody here you know people have run for their lives

00:44essentially so this is the the first shell that was directed at our

00:49humanitarian base in Kershawn that was close but then unfortunately they

00:56managed to get really accurate with a second shell and completely obliterate

01:00our supply hub you know we've come up with a different solution but it's quite

01:05clear that you know the activity around this you know is being spotted by people

01:10who were sympathetic to the other side but it's such a shame that you know

01:17humanitarian efforts like this which are only benefiting the elderly the young

01:22people who are unable to move are being to be targeted and and missile attacked

01:32300 meters to the coastline to the front line to the coastline

01:38the riverbank the riverbank yeah yeah yeah and there's no traffic here because

01:44because the FPV drones here so we have just to carefully watch here upstairs

01:51because it's really dangerous so you can see just only one or two cars

01:57which is moving really fast just to avoid this dropping the mines from the FPV drones

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