Czech volunteers handed over medical evacuation vehicle to Ukraine’s Armed Forces

The Czech volunteer organization Team4Ukraine handed over to the Ukrainian army three Humvees, specially adapted for transporting the wounded in the harshest conditions of war.

The Czech publication Irozhlas reported about this.

Volunteers of the Team4Ukraine organization, whose main goal is to support the Ukrainian army, talked about how they started this project:

“We started raising money last fall for additional ambulances, which would primarily go to the front line. They would take wounded soldiers and civilians away from the contact line.

We chose Hummers of the U.S. army, because quite a large number of them are in Ukraine, it regards several thousand vehicles delivered by the U.S. army or other allied countries. There are logistics, spare parts for them, and service personnel is already familiar with those vehicles. At the same time, they have a very good passability and are able to transport two wounded lying down and two sitting ones,” says Jan Sully Heřmánek from Team4Ukraine.

Sully and his friends from Team4Ukraine improved and modified these vehicles.

“We brought them into proper technical condition, equipped them, for example, with a voltage converter, night vision devices, and medical equipment. There are ventilators and stretchers. We also reinforced the car: we had doors, wheel arches, side and front armored windows made of armored steel.”

“We deliver three such vehicles to different units. One will serve in the Kherson region, and two – near Bakhmut. We hope that this will save as many lives as possible,” concludes Jan Sully Heřmánek and thanks everyone who joined the project.

Before being sent to the front line, Ukrainian drivers will first have to learn how to drive these specific cars.

Now Roman is learning to drive one of the three cars. At first, he transported the killed and wounded in UAZ:an old, uncomfortable Soviet vehicle. Now they bought a jeep, but it is also not perfect for trips to the frontline, because it has already been shot several times. Instead of windows, it has plywood or clapboard. Now Roman will learn to drive the new Humvee, which the unit has received.

“We are under constant fire, but I’m not thinking about it because I know there are wounded people who need an ambulance, so I just focus on the task at hand.

Sometimes you have to stop the cars and go to the position on foot, because it is impossible to drive there. Sometimes we get flat tires so we just go with rims. They shoot at us with machine guns, grenade launchers and even anti-tank guided missiles,” he says.