Ukrainian soldier Yevgen had been stuck on the front line for two days, his foot torn off by a mine. Just as he was losing hope, a comrade told him salvation was coming from above: a flying evacuation drone.“I said, ’you’re kidding, right? You’re just trying to cheer me up’,” he said.Now recovering in a hospital bed, Yevgen — whose surname cannot be disclosed for security reasons — was one of the first Ukrainians to be evacuated by an aerial medical drone.
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Ukrainian soldier Yevgen had been stuck on the front line for two days, his foot torn off by a mine. Just as he was losing hope, a comrade told him salvation was coming from above: a flying evacuation drone.“I said, ’you’re kidding, right? You’re just trying to cheer me up’,” he said.Now recovering in a hospital bed, Yevgen — whose surname cannot be disclosed for security reasons — was one of the first Ukrainians to be evacuated by an aerial medical drone.
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