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Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umierov has signed an order on the creation of a medical department under the ministry, which will allow for the standardisation of tourniquets and combat first-aid kits for Ukrainian soldiers.

At the end of August, Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, told those criticizing the speed of his country’s ‘much anticipated counter-offensive’ to “shut up”.

The Ukrainian government has adopted an order which will allow appropriately trained combat medics to administer blood transfusions at a pre-hospital stage. Source: Ministry of Health of Ukraine For this purpose, the Health Ministry is expanding a special training programme in the basics of transfusion therapy.

Medical Forces Command did not conduct a general inspection of the tourniquets provided to the Armed Forces, which was supposed to have been conducted by 14 August, said Solomiia Bobrovska, member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee of National Security.

Anton Shevchuk, Head of the Medical Service of the 82nd Separate Air Assault brigade, who requested that Medical Forces Command replace poor-quality Chinese tourniquets and asked social activist Oksana Korchynska to help with this, has been given a "severe reprimand.

Donetsk It’s past midnight and I am standing in silence with the crew of a military ambulance on the edge of the Donetsk region. The village is dark to avoid attracting the attention of Russian drones. The paramedics move with quiet determination, lifting blood-soaked stretchers and ferrying moaning, injured soldiers from one vehicle to the

Military medics at a frontline hospital removed a mine shank from the body of a wounded soldier. The photos of the recovered piece of explosive were shared by the Medical Forces Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The Ukrainian military's medical forces command did not purchase any first aid kits in 2023, and those provided through international aid were not properly checked, lawmaker Solomiia Bobrovska of the opposition party Voice said on July 31.

Metinvest Mining and Metallurgical Group, as part of its support to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, is cooperating with the FAST charitable foundation, which trains Ukrainian military personnel in tactical medicine, by providing UAH 4 million for the development of this area.

RT spoke to Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Russian Investigative Committee Eight years after the outbreak of the conflict in the Donbass, innocent people continue to die. Russian investigators have been scrutinizing incidents that involve the...