President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte visited one of the medical facilities in Odesa where Ukrainian defenders are recovering from their wounds.
The leaders spoke with the warriors and medical staff about the treatment conditions. Ukrainian defenders are receiving all the necessary assistance after sustaining injuries while carrying out combat missions in the Donetsk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and Kursk regions.
The Head of State thanked them for their service and defense of Ukraine, wished them a speedy recovery, and awarded them Orders “For Courage,” II and III class.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy also expressed gratitude to the combat medics and presented them with the Orders of Bohdan Khmelnytsky and the Orders of Princess Olga, III class, the Order of Danylo Halytskyi, and the Medal “For Military Service to Ukraine.” In addition to their daily work at the facility, they saved the lives of Ukrainian warriors under artillery and missile fire in the Kherson, Kharkiv, and Mykolaiv regions: providing assistance, conducting evacuations, and performing surgeries.
“You are very important people to us. Thank you for saving all the lives. Please take care of yourselves. For every minute, for every surgery, for all the time you’ve given since the beginning of the war – Ukraine is grateful to you,” the President said.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte also commended the courage of Ukrainian doctors and their contribution to saving the lives of defenders.
“You are spending your time, your days, your weeks, your years on this. And we have seen this. It is so important. And this is the difference between Ukraine and Russia. This is the difference between dictatorship and democracy,” emphasized the NATO Secretary General.
