movie rescue in the . A Ukrainian soldier has remained seriously injured for a total of 33 days after a land mine will leave one of his feet destroyed.
He was trapped behind enemy linesbut he managed to get a tourniquet that stopped the serious bleeding that he was suffering and allowed him to stay alive while waiting for someone to come rescue him.
After the failure of six missions to try to return the soldier to the Ukrainian area and be able to treat him medically, an armored ground drone called MAUL was in charge of achieving the impossible and rescue the Ukrainian soldier.
This unmanned vehicle is known by the nickname “coffin on wheels” because it is designed, precisely, to resist attacks from enemy mines and drones and being able to evacuate wounded soldiers from dangerous areas.
As reported by the British media once the fighter was rescued and was heading to the Ukrainian area, The ground drone suffered the explosion of an anti-personnel mine. However, it only suffered damage to one of its wheels and He was able to continue his course without problems.
According to The Telegraph, The “coffin on wheels” took a total of five hours and 58 minutes to reach the complicated area dominated by Russian forces in which the wounded Ukrainian soldier was located.
In this sense, the paramedics of the First Independent Medical Battalion of Ukraine, who commanded the rescue mission, have highlighted, in statements to the aforementioned British media, that “If the combatant has not surrendered, we do not have the right to do so either.”
For his part, Wolodymyr Kowal, from the First Medical Battalion, explained that the rescue was high risk because the soldier was in a area “with a very high density of enemy drones in the air, numerous mines and obstacles.”
