Ukrainian medics heal what Russia wounds: Kursk Oblast’s child lifesaving - Video

Capt. Maksym Morozko, head of the medical service, was responding to reports of wounded civilians, including a child with an amputated limb.

"Amputation is a fairly rapid loss of blood, so I immediately summoned the team working with me and warned the surgeons to get ready. About 40 minutes later, two evacuation vehicles brought a boy with an amputated right limb and an open head injury with a metal fragment protruding from his head to our stabilization center," he recalled, adding that the boy was given a tourniquet and bandage by Ukrainian soldiers before being taken to the stabilization center with his mother, who had an open leg fracture.

“I did not even think that it was a Russian child. A child is a child. He is injured and we must help him, no matter what - the attitude towards us that has been twisted by parents, authorities and television. He is still a child.”

The boy’s mother refused to speak to the medics and give their names, possibly because she was afraid of them because they spoke Ukrainian.

It was later determined that the boy was 11 years old, surprising the medical team who initially thought he was 8-9 years old because he looked "very thin."

"The paradox of the war is that while Russia is shelling its own territory and blaming Ukraine, it is Ukrainian military medics who are saving the lives of their children... This proves once again that we are not fighting children or civilians, but occupiers and criminals. Ukraine is a country of life, not destruction," the brigade stressed in its video.