US Army Veteran Trains Ukrainian Combat Medic Specialists and Provides Individual First-Aid Kits

On May 23, 2022, a volunteer, paramedic and US Army veteran Brennan Phillips visited the Volunteer Centre of I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University. In the course of his volunteer activities in Ukraine, he handed over 153 individual first-aid kits of the NATO standard to military and combat medics, as well as haemostatics (33), tourniquets (33), and a large number of nasopharyngeal tubes.

Brennan Phillips gained combat experience in Syria, where he had the opportunity to see and learn well the methods of war used by the Russian army. According to him, he is observing the same thing now in Ukraine. During the training for military doctors, Mr. Brennan emphasizes that doctors, hospitals, kindergartens and schools were and are the main objects for the Russian military. This is a kind of terror designed to cause despair, disorientation and panic. Therefore, he advises paramedics or doctors not to have any identifying marks on their clothes or anything else demonstrating that they belong to medical field. According to the US veteran, this will save many lives.

Brennan Phillips often travels to the front line in Ukraine, providing everything needed, which he buys with donations. He met representatives of the Foreign Legion, who at one time fought in Syria. “I am not surprised at all that among those people who were in Syria and Iraq, approximately 70 percent ended up in Ukraine. I personally know at least 20 of them. It is simply an honour to be a part of these events and the veteran community.