Viktor Cherniy, 52, and Vitalii Yunatskyi, 40, service members, wounded during fighting with Russian forces, and patients of the Mechnykov Hospital talk in an intensive care unit, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine, May 14, 2025. REUTERS/Alina Smutko
DNIPRO, Ukraine (Reuters) - As a flurry of diplomacy begins in Turkey, Serhii Ryzhenko and his team of Ukrainian medics are yearning for a peace deal after seeing far too many patients with life-threatening injuries pass through their hospital.
The 61-year-old hopes the hospital he runs in Dnipro, little more than 100 km (60 miles) from the eastern front line in Russia's war against Ukraine, will soon be treating routine complaints from a population at peace in eastern Ukraine.
