Two Polish volunteers injured near Bakhmut and taken to Lublin for treatment

Two Polish volunteers were taken to a Lublin hospital on Tuesday evening after being injured in combat action on the Bakhmut front in Donetsk Oblast. Source: Wojciech Andrusiewicz, a spokesman for Poland's Ministry of Health, in a commentary for Polish news agency PAP; European Pravda The volunteers, a man and a woman, had been delivering humanitarian aid to frontline settlements in Ukraine.

Quote: "They were unloading humanitarian aid from their vehicle when a mortar bomb exploded next to them. Sadly, the woman's shin has had to be amputated. The man received a gunshot shrapnel wound."

Andrusiewicz added that the Humanitarian Aid Foundation was in charge of transportation and patient care from the Ukrainian side.

Adam Niedzielski, the Polish Health Minister, also talked to the injured volunteers when they arrived in Poland. Background: The day before, the UK's Foreign Office confirmed the disappearance of two British men who had been working as volunteers in Donetsk Oblast. They went missing on 7 January on the way from Kramatorsk to Soledar, where heavy fighting is ongoing at the moment.

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