(6 Jun 2022)
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Donetsk region (Ukrainian government-controlled side), Ukraine - 4 June 2022
1. Ukrainian military vehicles crossing driving through woodland
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Donetsk region (Ukrainian government-controlled side), Ukraine - 5 June 2022
2. Ukrainian soldier sitting on an armored vehicle
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Donetsk region (Ukrainian government-controlled side), Ukraine - 4 June 2022 )
3. Ukrainian military vehicle driving past
4. Various of camouflaged ambulance driving
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Donetsk region (Ukrainian government-controlled side), Ukraine - 5 June 2022
5. Mid of military ambulance
6. Soldier being escorted
7. Close of blood-stained bandage  
8. Mid of stretcher and ambulance in woodland
9. SOUNDBITE (English) 'Skif' (nom de Guerre), volunteer medic:
"So many hurt people, so many warriors die. All our warriors told only one thing, 'We haven't weapons, we haven't supplies, we haven't ammo, Russian army very big.'"
10. Mid of soldiers and equipment
11.  SOUNDBITE (English) 'Skif' (nom de Guerre), volunteer medic:
"90% of trauma is mortars. The Russians use hard (heavy) artillery, and 90% of the soldiers have artillery trauma. Today we have two injured people on the head, one people without leg, and I see two guys, another command (paramedic group) give a treatment but (they were injured) in the hand. That's very difficult."
12. Close of injured person's pulse being checked
13. Various of wounded soldier being transferred
14. Ambulance driving
15. Ukrainian airplane flying
STORYLINE:
Injured Ukrainian military personnel show the toll the war is taking on the people of Ukraine.
As Russian forces continue to push forward in their invasion in the eastern region of Donbas, Ukrainian servicemen are fighting hard in order to hold the line and slow the invading troops.
They are doing it at great cost.
It is unclear how many casualties or injured soldiers Ukraine armed forces have so far sustained since the beginning of the invasion as the government does not release any official figure.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on June 2nd that between 450 and 500 soldiers are injured, and up to one hundred people could be dying every day in the east.
On the frontlines in the Bakhmut area, part of Donetsk region, volunteer paramedics rush to respond to calls from the army to evacuate injured soldiers, as well as civilians.  
The group of medics say they often come under shelling themselves, therefore they hide in the woods.
A volunteer medic told the AP the majority of the soldiers report wounds caused by heavy artillery fire.
The medic, who goes by the nom de guerre of Skif, said heavy artillery is the reason behind almost 90% of the wounded.  
Soldiers are taken to the first aid station in the nearest city to be stabilized and then they are transferred to a bigger, better equipped hospital far from the frontlines.
In the Donbas region, Russia-backed separatists have fought the Ukrainian government since 2014.
Medics and soldiers on the frontlines say this time Russia is using an increased amount of resources, both in terms of soldiers and weapons, including airpower and long-range missiles.
AP video shot by Andrea Rosa, Inna Varenytsia.
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