"Hands and clothes were covered in blood": doctor from Zaporizhzhia tells how he saved Russian attack victims
Stanislav Stoikov, a surgeon from Zaporizhzhia, together with his colleagues, pulled 15 injured people out of a house attacked by the Russians on 22 March 2022.
As a result of the Russian attack on the city, one person was killed and 33 were injured, including three children. The strike hit two high-rise buildings standing next to each other.
Oral and maxillofacial surgeon Stanislav Stoikov was in his mother's apartment at the time of the explosion.
Quote: "I went to my mother's house to drink coffee and spend some time there. At first, we did not feel anything, and then we were thrown by a blast wave into the corridor. Thereafter, I turned on the phone and started filming – you can hear the sound of the second explosion in the video," Stanislav told Ukrainian Pravda. Life.
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In the video taken by the man, his mother is standing in the dilapidated kitchen and holding a flower in a pot. At the moment of the explosion, she starts screaming.
After the second explosion, Stanislav took his mother outside, where he met his colleagues from the 5th city hospital, who were already helping the injured.
"Together we went to the neighbouring entrances, where everything was much worse. And we started to pull people out and help them little by little," the doctor says.
According to Stanislav Stoikov, medics managed to pull 15 people out of a nearby house. Stanislav's second video shows a confused grandmother at the entrance, a man with a head injury, and an injured woman covered in blood being carried to an ambulance on a stretcher.
"After I helped transport people, my hands and pants were covered in blood. Almost none of the people understood where to go and what happened," Stanislav says.
According to Stanislav, the emergency workers continue removing the rubble. It is also not known what the condition of the houses is, or whether people will be able to return to them. Nearby buildings were also damaged; windows and frames were shattered by the blast wave.
Stanislav's mother is currently staying with a relative. Other victims, according to the doctor, also found shelter with relatives or friends.
"The authorities have delivered a couple of buses for people, but I don't know how to live there. They call it a modular town," Stanislav Stoikov says.
Background: According to preliminary information, on 22 March, the Russian occupiers hit Zaporizhzhia with rocket artillery.
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