Polina Melnyk and Ihor Tkachov were having breakfast on Tuesday when they heard the whistle of a missile fly low over their Poltava apartment block and, moments later, the sound of two explosions.
After working out that the target of the missile had been the military communications institute in the city in east-central Ukraine, far from the war’s frontlines, they jumped in the car and set off to offer their help. Melnyk and Tkachov are volunteer medics, and have worked at army stabilisation positions close to the frontline in recent months, seeing all kinds of terrible injuries.
