Yurii Skurativskyi

“The hardest part was helping children. … I’m a 46-year-old man who has lived long enough, seen and experienced a lot. But those kids, looking at you with eyes that shouldn’t have even seen such things… It was the hardest part; I wasn’t psychologically prepared to treat kids. I know how to do that, of course. But that just proved too much. It was a shock.

[And also] women. It was a wild situation. It’s easier with men. I have a tremendous experience in providing aid. I know what to do and how to do it. But wounded women, with limbs torn off – I just don’t get it.

… Children, women – why? What’s the point of all this?..”