Leading surgeon trains Ukraine’s doctors to treat war injuries - BBC News

Heavy fighting is continuing in the east of Ukraine and the war is taking a terrible toll.

Hundreds of Ukrainian troops and civilians are being killed or injured every day, mainly as a result of Russian shelling.

Ukraine’s medical services are under enormous pressure and one British surgeon, David Nott,  who has decades of experience treating war injuries, has been on the frontline helping train Ukrainian doctors.

Huw Edwards presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Wyre Davies in eastern Ukraine.

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