An ambulance sent to Ukraine after fundraising by an A&E consultant from Cardiff has been attacked by a missile. The ambulance travelled more than 2,000 miles to the city of Mikolayev to help administer vital emergency healthcare amid the Russian invasion before it was shelled.
Dr Mateo Szmidt, an emergency medicine consultant at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, believes it was one of two vehicles sent from Wales in March. The consultant launched a GoFundMe campaign in March to purchase the first ambulance.
Dr Szmidt said he hoped something could be salvaged from the vehicle, which he believed had been near Odesa for three weeks. Reposting what appears to be CCTV footage of the attack on his Instagram page the doctor said he was "sad and angry".
