'It's always scary': Medics in Ukraine's 'meat grinder' city of Bakhmut
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As Russian forces poured across Ukraine's borders, Palych knew that pain, suffering and injuries would follow in the ensuing war and his training as a paramedic would be needed. "I could not sit on the sidelines, so I went to the front as a volunteer," says Palych, the nom de guerre for the 35-year-old medic working near the frontline in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.

