Drone video coming out of Eastern Ukraine captures a group of Russian troops attempting to conduct aid and litter operations. Unfortunately, they repeatedly get blasted by what appears to be ATGM rounds.

The unfortunate situation on the ground in Ukraine is that medevac is complicated. In Iraq and Afghanistan, coalition air power had full control of the skies. As a result, they were capable of airlifting out casualties within a very fast window. This airlift capacity made saving injured troops quite easy for medical personnel as they were often getting the injured within 30 minutes to an hour of the person being wounded.

In Ukraine, no one has control of the skies and medevac is down to individual actions and ground based options. Those ground based options range from field ambulances to transport the wounded, and individual troops simply carrying their wounded by hand. In this video you're looking at a group of Russian Soldiers acting as an aid and litter team for one of their wounded. En route to what is probably a regular fighting position that has been converted into a rudimentary aid station, the group becomes the target of several ATGM strikes from Ukrainian forces.

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