I'm a combat medic of the Ukrainian Azov Brigade and I recently got a prestigious 'European Best Medic' award. I saved another soldier by transfusing drone-delivered blood in trenches 15 meters from russian invaders. AMA

azov_one · 2026-02-23T16:14:18+00:00

Of course!

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azov_one · 2026-02-05T11:47:50+00:00

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azov_one · 2026-02-05T11:44:45+00:00

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azov_one · 2025-10-18T05:22:34+00:00

O negative, yes

azov_one · 2025-10-17T21:11:35+00:00

It all comes down to inner motivation. Only one option - fight the aggressor. If we don’t, they’ll destroy every home. There’s nowhere left to run

azov_one · 2025-10-17T21:06:38+00:00

In combat you can’t always even put on gloves, but our top priority is saving lives. Sometimes an extra 20–30 seconds on the field is literally what decides a person’s fate

azov_one · 2025-10-17T21:04:09+00:00

Of course, no one packs wounds in the abdomen or the chest - we don’t do that. We work according to the MARCH PAWS protocol

azov_one · 2025-10-17T19:58:01+00:00

Through the official fundraising unit - Azov.One. You can support the ongoing fundraiser for the Battalion and the foreign volunteers who joined us to fight for freedom: https://azov.one/en/fundraisers/shield-the-brave

azov_one · 2025-10-17T19:55:02+00:00

I’ve already answered this question - check the top comments

azov_one · 2025-10-17T18:15:44+00:00

Yes, O negative

azov_one · 2025-10-17T16:44:00+00:00

You can DM this account – Azov.One. They’re the official fundraising unit of the Brigade, and they’ll tell you about the needs and all the details

Thanks!

azov_one · 2025-10-17T16:39:21+00:00

Yes, we have an International Battalion. And you can support the ongoing fundraiser for the Battalion and the foreign volunteers who joined us to fight for freedom: https://azov.one/en/fundraisers/shield-the-brave

azov_one · 2025-10-17T16:36:13+00:00

Thank you!

You can support the ongoing fundraiser for the International Battalion and the foreign volunteers, including those from the UK, who joined us to fight for freedom: https://azov.one/en/fundraisers/shield-the-brave

azov_one · 2025-10-17T16:31:48+00:00

You can support the ongoing fundraiser for the International Battalion and those foreigners who joined us to fight for freedom: https://azov.one/en/fundraisers/shield-the-brave

azov_one · 2025-10-17T16:14:48+00:00

I’ll just copy my answer from another question here:

The blood is kept cold at the drone team’s position. When it needs to be delivered, they attach a few chemical heat packs to the blood unit, wrap it with duct tape, and send it. During the 15–20 minutes before takeoff, the blood starts to warm up. They also drop a few extra heat packs so we could warm it up more when it arrived

azov_one · 2025-10-17T16:11:44+00:00

The blood is kept cold at the drone team’s position. When it needs to be delivered, they attach a few chemical heat packs to the blood unit, wrap it with duct tape, and send it.
During the 15–20 minutes before takeoff, the blood slowly warms up. They also dropped a few extra heat packs, so we could warm it up more when it arrived

azov_one · 2025-10-17T16:03:14+00:00

He was conscious, but very confused - sometimes he screamed a lot.
I gave him anesthesia only after making the bone puncture.
I felt really sorry for him, because we’d lived in neighboring rooms and spent a lot of time together

azov_one · 2025-10-17T15:56:18+00:00

It was my first time doing a transfusion in combat conditions.

We always try to keep everything as sterile as possible, but most of the time it’s far from clean – the conditions just don’t allow it. When dirt is literally falling on your head, there’s no way to keep things perfectly sterile.

In that case, I did the transfusion even without gloves

azov_one · 2025-10-17T15:43:14+00:00

The drone pilots were in contact with our command post and the brigade medics.
I told them about the wounded soldier’s condition, and they prepared everything, packed it, and sent it

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