Ukrainian war medic Roma Zukh has learned a hard rule during the Russian invasion ¡ª don¡¯t get too close to your colleagues. They could be killed at any moment.

Since Russia invaded in February 2022, the former truck driver, with light blue eyes and a ginger beard, had lost too many people to see any new friends suffer the same fate.

¡°You remember each one ... the ones you were wounded with, the ones that enlisted at the same time ¡ª those you definitely won¡¯t forget,¡± the 37-year-old said.