They found the grandmother, an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor, in a severely damaged house that had been hit by rocket fire recently. They alternated driving, often coming under fire, until they arrived in Lyman. Photo: United HatzalahĪlexander and Vadim departed on Sunday morning and traveled through the country and into Donetsk. Vadim loads the patient into his ambulance for the long drive back to western Ukraine. The distance the pair would have to travel was more than 2,500 kilometers (1,550 miles). He immediately dispatched a pair of ambulance drivers who work with United Hatzalah in Ukraine, Alexander Valerovitz and Vadim Aniboritzog, on a mission that resulted in the grandmother’s life being saved and her being returned to her only other family currently inside Ukraine in the western city of Uzhgorod. Being uncertain how long the city would stay in Ukrainian hands, Naftali saw the window of opportunity and raced for it. Lyman was retaken by Ukrainian forces over the weekend making an extraction in the city by a Ukrainian ambulance now possible. Donetsk, together with the Luhansk province makes up the region called Donbas and Russia has stated that they recently annexed the region in spite of taking heavy losses in the conflict. The city of Lyman, located in the province of Donetsk, has been a flashpoint in the war between Ukraine and Russia recently and has come under heavy fire as both sides struggle for control of the province, which was seized by Russian-backed militants in 2014. The woman on the other end of the phone said that she is the granddaughter of an older woman who lives in the city of Lyman and that her grandmother was in need of urgent medical attention and transportation out of the war-torn city. (United Hatzalah) A few days before Yom Kippur, Naftali Rabinovitch, who serves as United Hatzalah Chief of Operations in Ukraine, received an urgent phone call.
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