Brit medic reveals horrors of Ukraine frontline and admits he’s also taken lives while helping wounded during brutal war
Brit medic reveals horrors of Ukraine frontline and admits he’s also taken lives while helping wounded during brutal war
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“What the f*** am I doing here? Why am I doing this?” the former NHS care assistant cursed as he was shaken awake by four huge explosions on Ukraine’s frontline. Moments later as smoke and falling debris cleared, a cacophony of sirens, car alarms and cries from wounded soldiers and civilians filled the air.
![[British frontline medic with face obscured, standing in front of damaged military vehicle.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/british-frontline-medic-call-sign-966916348.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
It was a sound all too familiar to the 25-year-old medic from south east England honoured with a special nickname by comrades for saving lives for nearly three years in the trenches. It was time for “Doc Brit” to conquer his fear yet again and go to work.
![[Damaged building in Kyiv, Ukraine, with rescue workers on a ladder.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/mykola-76-attaches-firewood-bicycle-966769982_3ae1d4.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
The bespectacled young hero - who we cannot identify - was an NHS healthcare assistant working on hospital wards when Russia invaded Ukraine in February, 2022. Watching Vladimir Putin’s forces’ brutal invasion on TV news, he suddenly felt compelled to help Ukraine and volunteered to join a humanitarian convoy heading to Kyiv.
![[A teenager sits hunched over near a damaged building.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/teenager-hunched-near-damaged-building-966765048.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Former Army cadet “Doc” - whose dad was an SAS medic and mum was an army truck driver - volunteered to become a frontline paramedic. And after nearly three years of carnage that followed, he revealed he has both saved - and taken - lives as a medic and rifleman at the sharp end of Vladimir Putin’s war.
![[Firefighters at the site of a Russian drone strike in Kyiv.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2025-press-service-state-emergency-966462034.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
He told The Sun: “I’m primarily a combat paramedic now but Ukraine is so short of soldiers I take part in assaults as well. “I’m from a big military family and was in the Army Cadets from the age of 10-18, where I learned to handle weapons. “I now carry an M4 assault rifle or a Kalashnikov into battles and open fire when I have to.
![[Elderly man securing firewood to his bicycle in front of a bombed-out building.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/people-run-smoke-rises-explosion-966319424.jpg?strip=all&w=541)
