“He was a very good man, a very good doctor, and he was my friend. We were preparing to operate on a patient when he was killed,” says Yuri Aleksiyevich, standing outside the hospital struck by a missile. “It’s such a terrible end to a life spent helping others.”
Dr Aleksiyevich is on his way to the funeral of Oleksandr Korodky, a fellow anaesthetist killed during the attack in Kupyansk, a town retaken by Ukrainian forces sweeping through the east and south of the country in highly successful offensives.
