< p>A German medical volunteer, an employee of the humanitarian organization Road2Relief (Road of Help) named Ruben Mavik, who survived a Russian missile attack on a convoy in eastern Ukraine, called on Germany to send more tanks to Kiev.
You can see in the video , like a bandaged volunteer, right during medical procedures in a hospital bed, calls on official Berlin to strengthen assistance to Ukraine.
— Send more tanks to the Ukrainian army, send more supplies. This war is not over, it is far from over, — he said.
Ruben Mavik was seriously wounded as a result of Saturday's Russian shelling of a convoy near Chasovoy Yar in the Donetsk region. The volunteers were traveling from Slavyansk to the village of Ivanovskoye, in the direction of Bakhmut. As a result of a direct hit, the volunteers' car overturned and caught fire.
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In addition to Ruben Mavic, in the car were Swedish volunteer Johan Mathias Thier, a volunteer from Canada Anthony “Tonko” Ignat and Spanish volunteer and director of the Road2Relief organization Emma Igual.
According to Road2Relief, Anthony Ignat and the organization's founder Emma Igual died on the spot. At the same time, German volunteer Ruben Mavic and Swede Johan Mathias Thier received severe shrapnel wounds and burns. Now, while in the hospital, doctors assess their condition as stable.
Mavik, a paramedic, said that he worked as a volunteer in Ukraine because “it is necessary to fight injustice“ #8221;.
— I hope I won’t become (disabled, — Ed.), I hope that my hearing will return, — he added.
In parallel, discussions are underway between Ukraine and Germany on the supply of long-range Taurus cruise missiles. Germany even stated that the only one blocking the supply of these missiles to Ukraine is German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
At the same time, the German leader has so far refrained from such a step.