In eastern Ukraine, quiet nights in the dim corridors of a front-line medical post can shatter in an instant. Medics roused from sleep rush to meet another stretcher wheeled in from the Donetsk front .

They work with urgency — chest compressions and shouted commands — until it becomes clear that the soldier arrived too late. The room falls silent as his body is sealed in a white bag.

He could not be saved, the anesthesiologist said, because evacuation took too long. By the time he reached the stabilization point, he was already dead.

It was not an isolated case, but part of a broader shift in the war where medical evacuation has become increasingly difficult.

“Because of drones ... that can reach far, the danger is there for the wounded themselves and now for the crews working to

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