Ukraine: Ukrainian Red Cross first-aiders in action
Maidan, Kiev, Ukraine, 22 January 2014.With temperatures at -20°C, the URCS emergency response team provides first aid amidst the violence.© Mstyslav Chernov / UnFrame
Maidan, Kiev, Ukraine, 21 January 2014.URCS emergency response team leader Taras Logginov gives a short interview to local journalists.© Mstyslav Chernov / UnFrame
Grushevsky Street, near Maidan, Kiev, Ukraine, 20 January 2014.A URCS first-aider flushes the eye of a protester affected by tear gas.© Mstyslav Chernov / UnFrame
Maidan, Kiev, Ukraine, 22 January 2014.Members of the URCS emergency response team transfer a man to hospital after giving him first aid.© Mstyslav Chernov / UnFrame
Maidan, Kiev, Ukraine, 19 January 2014.URCS first-aiders carry a casualty to an ambulance.© Mstyslav Chernov / UnFrame
Kiev, Ukraine.URCS volunteers enjoy a rare few minutes' break from treating people injured during the Maidan protests.© Mstyslav Chernov / UnFrame
Verkhovnaya Rada, near Maidan, Kiev, Ukraine, 18 February 2014.A URCS first-aider treats a Maidan activist's leg wound.© Mstyslav Chernov / UnFrame
Grushevsky Street, near Maidan, Kiev, Ukraine, 18 February 2014.Members of the emergency response team dress a head wound.© Mstyslav Chernov / UnFrame
Maidan, Kiev, Ukraine, 20 February 2014.URCS volunteers prepare to go on patrol.© Mstyslav Chernov / UnFrame
Maidan, Kiev, Ukraine, 20 February 2014.The URCS emergency response team assesses the condition of an activist who has just received a bullet wound. Seconds after this photo was taken, fiirst-aider Roman Kotliarevskyi (with beard, wearing purple gloves) himself became a casualty when a bullet hit him in the leg© Mstyslav Chernov / UnFrame
Outside Kharkiv regional administration building, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 8 April 2014.The URCS Kharkiv emergency response team stands by to provide first aid during protests.© Mstyslav Chernov / UnFrame
Outside Kharkiv regional administration building, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 8 April 2014.Members of the URCS Kharkiv emergency response team give first aid to a person injured during protests.© Mstyslav Chernov / UnFrame
Outside Kharkiv regional administration building, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 8 April 2014.URCS first-aiders treat a casualty of the protests.© Mstyslav Chernov / UnFrame
As soon as protests began in Kiev in November 2013, a group of Ukrainian Red Cross volunteers started providing first aid to people injured during the clashes and evacuating them from the danger zones. This group went on to form the core of the 60-member emergency response team set up in Kiev on 1 December 2013.
