Elderly woman evacuated from frontline town in Kherson region

Recently, a 74-year-old sick local resident was evacuated to safety from Beryslav, which suffers daily from enemy artillery and mortar shelling and attacks by Russian drones, by members of the patrol police response team of the district police department.

According to the Kherson regional police, the Beryslav district police department received a call from medical workers that a woman with critically high blood pressure needed urgent hospitalization. As it turned out, she was living alone and the only hope for rescue was the police.

"An evacuation team immediately went to the scene. Law enforcement officers in an armored car quickly took the woman away and handed her over to doctors," the statement said.

Last week, Kherson police evacuated a mother with two young children who needed medical care from Novooleksandrivka , which was under fire from the Russian military.

Earlier, while evacuating wounded civilians from Antonivka , patrol police officers in a police car hit an anti-personnel mine. A 32-year-old patrol policeman was injured. Before that, volunteers and representatives of the Kherson City Military Administration evacuated 47 people from Antonivka and other hotspots of the community. One of the volunteers was injured as a result of an explosive drop from an enemy drone. According to Roman Mrochko, head of the Kherson MBA, volunteers and MBA staff involved in the evacuation of people from under fire risk their own lives and lose their health to get those who ignored calls to evacuate until the last moment.

"Every day, according to the official, it is getting harder to find volunteers for evacuation teams working in extremely dangerous conditions. After all, each flight may be the last," added Mrochko.

However, despite the danger and shelling, the evacuation of civilians in Kherson region continues.

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