Journalists Yulia Surkova and Kristina Berdynskykh administered first aid to a civilian injured during a Russian strike in Kyiv, Surkova reported in a Facebook post.
She said that a drone had struck the SBU office on Volodymyrska Street. She and her colleague were in a nearby café at the time. The explosion injured Stanislav, 33, a warehouse worker from Brovary: a shrapnel piece hit him in the head and another went straight through his arm.
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The journalists and a passer-by who had stopped to help brought the injured man into the café, stopped the bleeding, and applied a tourniquet.
“Khrystyna called an ambulance, while a young guy (who, thankfully, happened to be nearby) and I bandaged the injured man. There were up to ten people in the café where we brought him in. I was the only one who had a tourniquet on me… Stanislav was deathly pale, blood from his arm was pouring onto the floor even through the bandages, but he stayed conscious. The ambulance arrived within ten minutes,” Yulia Surkova recounted.
The paramedics who arrived at the scene hospitalised the man.
According to Surkova, this incident demonstrates that, given the constant shelling strikes on the capital, one should always be carrying a certified tourniquet and a first aid kit.
On 28 January 2026, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty journalist and war reporter Maryan Kushnir rescued a child aged 4 during the Russian strike in the Bucha district of Kyiv oblast. The strike had resulted in a fire breaking out in a high-rise building. The child’s mother was killed. The child has been picked up by the father and is now safe.
