The Russian army deployed: -315 Shahed attack UAVs and various types of decoy drones from Kursk, Shatalovo, Oryol, Millerovo and Primorsko-Akhtarsk;
-two KN-23 ballistic missiles from Russia's Voronezh Oblast;
-five Iskander-K cruise missiles from Russia's Kursk Oblast.
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Russia Deploys Drones and Missiles: Assessment and Location
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Ukraine intercepts majority of 315 Russian drones and missiles
Overnight, Russian troops launched 315 drones, as well as ballistic and cruise missiles at Ukraine. Ukrainian Defense Forces neutralized most of the Russian air targets, the Ukrainian Air Force reported.
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First aid kit essential: don’t skimp, prepare for survival not just death.
42/ "Do not skimp on buying a first aid kit, do not hope that you will be given one. Do not count on quality instruction in training, there you are prepared for death, not for survival.
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Doctor warns of low survival chances
Alexander advises would-be volunteers that they face a low chance of survival, especially if they join an assault unit. "As a doctor, I have to warn them honestly: the survival rate of soldiers at the front today is many times lower than in Afghanistan or the Chechen war."
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Overworked doctors, declining medical care due to increased strain
40/ However, this has led to greater strain on underpaid and overworked civilian doctors. It has increased the exodus of civilian medical staff, causing the quality of the medical care available to both soldiers and civilians to deteriorate.
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Military medicine’s civilianisation: burnout and personnel outflow
39/ Alexander says that the increasing 'civilianisation' of military medicine is the result of "the unstoppable outflow of [medical] personnel" burned out by high workloads and terrible working conditions.
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Military casualties in civilian hospitals cause security issues and assault
38/ An increasing number of military casualties have been transferred to civilian hospitals. This has caused significant security problems, including soldiers attacking and raping civilian patients, or calling prostitutes to their wards.
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Military doctors lack basic supplies
35/ Military doctors lack basic supplies and cannot obtain them in the ruined towns and villages behind the front line. "It's not even about medicines, but about consumables. Take ordinary hydrogen peroxide, which is used to peel bandages off wounds."
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Wounded soldiers’ misbehavior: marginal contingents seeking quick profit, resorting to obscenities and violence.
34/ Some of the wounded make themselves a source of problems through their own misbehaviour. Alexander speaks of "frankly marginal contingents" who joined to make a quick buck: "they only speak in obscenities, and they can even hit you".
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Young doctors fainting from fatigue: “inhumane” conditions described
32/ "I have seen young doctors literally faint from fatigue after a 14-hour shift. And this is every day without days off. The conditions, frankly speaking, are inhumane.