(11 Aug 2025)
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Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine – 11 August 2025
1. Various of medics from 59th Separate Assault Brigade treating injured infantry soldiers
2. Close of medics treating wound
3. Various of medic looking at soldier’s ears
4. Wide of medic helping take shirt off from soldier
5. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) "Buhor," 38, head of medical stabilization point:
"Most of the injured are coming with shrapnel injuries from FPV (first-person view) drones, about 98 percent. At the same time, there are burns after the explosion."
6. Various of medics treating injured soldiers
7. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Valentyn Pidvalnyi, 25, infantry soldier:
"It’s very difficult with delivery, when food and water are delivered to positions, everything is controlled (by the Russians). They watch where and what is dropped (from drones). And even when you destroy the enemy in an assault, then the complete horror from the air begins."
8. Close of a banner depicting a skeleton soldier
9. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Valentyn Pidvalnyi, 25, infantry soldier:
"There is no time for this (for reading news), we are currently defeating the enemy, and whoever has time should follow the news, maybe something will change at the front."
10. Various of medics treating injured soldiers
11. Wide of full moon
12. Wide of serviceman closing evacuation vehicle door with treated soldiers inside
STORYLINE:
An increasing number of Ukrainian soldiers are suffering injuries from first-person view drones in the Donetsk region.
Four soldiers injured from fighting in eastern Ukraine were evacuated to a field hospital dozens of kilometres from Pokrovsk — the epicentre of the fighting as Russia moves slowly but steadily.
Medics at field hospitals say they have not seen gunshot wounds for months. Instead, most injuries now come from first-person-view (FPV) drones — remotely piloted devices loaded with explosives that allow the operator to see the target before striking. Their widespread use has turned areas up to 20 kilometers from the front line into deadly zones.
"Most of the injured are coming with shrapnel injuries from FPV (first-person view) drones, about 98 percent, explained "Buhor," head of the stabilization point. "At the same time, there are burns after the explosion."
In the early months of Russia’s so-called "special military operation," medical evacuation vehicles could approach almost to the front, giving wounded soldiers better chances of survival. Now, FPV drones have become the most feared weapon on the battlefield — precise and inescapable once they are locked on a target, regardless of a soldier’s combat experience or skills.
They have also reduced survival odds for those already wounded, a critical challenge for Ukraine’s outnumbered and outgunned army.
"It’s very difficult with delivery, when food and water are delivered to positions, everything is controlled (by the Russians), they watch where and what is dropped (from drones)," said 25-year-old infantry soldier Valentyn Pidvalnyi. "And even when you destroy the enemy in an assault, then the complete horror from the air begins."
AP Video by Vasilisa Stepanenko
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