"Two weeks ago, my colleagues and I stood in Dnipro while warning sirens cut across the city and Shahed drones screamed overhead. We had come as a medical-humanitarian delegation to inspect trauma centers that receive the worst of the front's casualties; instead, we found ourselves in a strike zone, sifting through a debris field that included drone fragments and watching medics pull the wounded from an improvised triage line."
"We traveled with a security team of veteran U.S. special operations personnel made up of Green Berets, former SEALs, and allied SOF veterans who have been fighting and advising in Ukraine since 2019 and earlier. Their presence allowed us safe, rapid access to hospitals, strike sites, and frontline briefings, and their frontline experience provided critical context to what we observed."
Warning sirens and Shahed drones struck Dnipro while medical-humanitarian teams inspected trauma centers, producing more than thirty civilian casualties and heavy damage across two city blocks. Drone fragments and debris marked strike sites while medics treated the wounded from improvised triage lines. U.S. special operations veterans provided secure, rapid access to hospitals, strike sites, and frontline briefings and reported an accelerating tempo and technological reach in the conflict. Russian forces are mounting coordinated pincer operations from Pokrovsk through Kramatorsk to Slovyansk aimed at encircling Donbas and then pushing west toward Zaporizhzhia to threaten Dnipro. The fall or isolation of Dnipro would sever east–west logistical and medical corridors and risk a catastrophic collapse in Ukrainian operational tempo and resilience.
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