Trump's aid halt shocks American medic on Ukraine's front lines
Rebekah Maciorowski shared her feelings when Trump halted aid to war-torn Ukraine. "You’re watching your friends and colleagues that you have taken care of potentially die in front of you while you’re listening to a leader of a democratic country say it doesn’t matter," says the medic.
Originally from Colorado, Rebekah Maciorowski arrived in Ukraine in 2022. She is a trauma nurse who has worked in Central America, among other places. She volunteered to go to the front lines in Ukraine. Though she was supposed to stay for only five weeks, she has remained there ever since. As a volunteer, she organizes evacuations of civilians and soldiers and raises funds to provide her teams with essential supplies.
A few months after Rebekah was officially accepted into the Ukrainian army as a medical officer, she witnessed a dispute between Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump at the White House. Maciorowski shared her insights on the actions of the current U.S. president in an interview with "The Independent."
"It felt like the knife in the back"
Rebeckah serves as a medical officer in the 53rd Battalion. She is responsible for the health of hundreds of soldiers fighting on Ukraine’s most dangerous and bloodiest front lines. When the argument between the presidents of Ukraine and the United States took place at the White House, Maciorowski and her team observed an increase in attacks from Russian drones.
- It was kind of traumatic. Honestly, it was kind of traumatic. It was unexpected, and it was, I don’t even have words. It was awful, yeah. It felt like a knife in the back - the American admits to "The Independent".
- We’re getting about 300g of water to them a day. Food, medicine, we drop it in from drones that were adapted to drop bombs because we cannot get the soldiers out overland - adds Rebeckah.
She emphasizes that soldiers in Ukraine manage to survive, though often suffering terrible injuries, precisely because of the medical packages dropped by drones, which her team helps deliver to Ukraine.
