Lower thirds:

00:02 Report by Maryna Barba
00:16 Stanislav Lobach | Trauma surgeon
00:50 Oksana Myronenko | Trauma surgeon

Script:

Trauma patients. Consultations. Operations. Helping Ukrainian soldiers get back on their feet. This has been life for Oksana and Stanislas for four years now. Stanislav works with “large bone” injuries.

:15  SOT Stansilav 
" This man is missing a piece of bone. So we operated on him....We rebuilt the bone here and put in a device. And now we are lowering the bone millimeter by millimeter every day until it connects with his native bone. As long as we turn it millimeter by millimeter, new bone will grow in this place."

:33
Resources are scarce - what the doctors can't get from the state, they seek from private foundations, including international ones. Sometimes they also manage to operate at the private clinic where they work, providing free consultations to wounded soldiers.

:49  SOT Oksana 
"Traditionally, 85% of the wounded return to service after their injuries. We rehabilitate them well and to a high standard. In other words, by keeping personnel combat-ready, we are strengthening our country...And this actually takes up the vast majority of our time. The rest of the time, we work as civilian doctors to earn money."

1:16
When Russia's full-scale invasion began in February 2022, the couple managed to leave for Kyiv with their children. The following month, Oksana's parents tried to leave occupied Bucha. However, their car was shot at by Russian soldiers. Oksana's mother died on the spot, and her father was wounded. Volunteers helped him out from a shed where he was hiding.

1:41   SOT ((Oksana and Stanislav))
 "They told him where to go, and he went through the gardens, because there were cars driving and shooting on the roads. He climbed over the gardens, fell, climbed, and after two or three houses, there was a paramedic and an ambulance driver there. ... And when he left, we just froze. I sat there, just staring at the phone, and 40 minutes later he called: “I'm out.” He walked through the checkpoints, and there were situations where he could have died, but luckily, he made it."

2:10 
Once in Kyiv, Oksana operated on her father herself.

2:15  SOT Oksana
"His right arm was shot through and his head was slightly injured. And then his life depended on me, on you... For a very long time."

2:25
In honor of her mother, Oksana founded a charitable initiative, and later a foundation that helps displaced persons and military personnel. The couple says they don't plan to stop as long as there is a need for their help.

2:45 END