A group of firefighters from Edmonton is home after spending just over a week in western Ukraine, where they did hands-on combat first training with first responders.
Kevin Royle, Nelson Bate and Anatoli Morgotch of Firefighter Aid Ukraine demonstrate some of the combat first aid training that they taught participants in Ukraine.
"Combat medicine really focuses on what we call the potentially preventable causes of death on the battlefield. It's a very focused and aggressive treatment towards those specific injuries, and it differs quite a bit from how I would do a paramedical assessment in Canada," said firefighter Nelson Bate.
"It's quite challenging sometimes for someone who has been in the military to sit back and watch these conflicts happening overseas — feeling helpless," he said. "When I was asked if I would like to participate, I felt quite honoured and privileged to be able to."Edmonton firefighters teach combat first aid in Ukraine"It felt very purposeful.
Morgotch had not been back to Ukraine since 2002 and said that it was surreal to be back in his homeland, which is now an active war zone.Mapping a year of war in UkraineMapping data shows Russia’s push into Ukraine over the last year and where it has lost ground to counteroffensive measures from Ukrainian forces.
"I learned kindness. I've learned humanity. I've learned how, during the hardest times, the last thing that they were thinking about [was] themselves — they were thinking about each other," he said.Kevin Royle, founder of Firefighter Aid Ukraine, said the organization has been delivering life-saving supplies and equipment to first responders and hospitals in Ukraine, and other countries, for about nine years.
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