local officials, and the strike killed at least eight people and wounded more than a dozen. jim? ben wedeman, thank you very much for that report. and here with us to talk about this further is brad hendrickson, also known as bakhmut brad. he s been with us on the program before. he s a former u.p.s. truck driver who left his life in maine last year, deployed himself to the eastern part of ukraine to provide humanitarian aid to the country s residents. brad, it s great to see you again. you recently just returned to ukraine. what are you seeing now? what are you picking up on? the lines are much more static, jim, than when i first arrived in march of last year. we began by evacuating people and falling back to towns and villages along the way. with both aid from the west and certainly the seasoned grit from ukrainian soldiers, the russians are no longer advancing, and
and alone. i m sort of the last mile guy in a lot of places. roughly speaking, do you have a sense of how many evacuations you ve done since you ve been here? dozens and dozens and dozens. surely more than 100. i bet it counting. all of these videos are brad s. snapshots of humanitarian missions few back home could imagine. got a call about a wounded person next door to an evacuation that happened recently. this was brad s thanksgiving. hello? hello? [crying] and nightfall a
here. now it is a no-man s-land. it s where one american is carrying out his own operation to help ukrainians. that s the building we were just in. he s documenting scenes like these on social media, where he is known as bakhmut brad. whoa, yeah, let me see. a lone wolf of sorts hello? taking rescue calls when others can t or won t. the two primary jobs are delivering aid and then evacuating people out. and tell you who s just bad for the state, a guy who s had a lot of jobs, some with emergency medical training but most recently he was truck driver. now he s driving routes she would dare to take. under bob bayern meant at times
call came from eastern bakhmut. he was about to begin one of his most daring rescues. hello. oh. 61-year-old tatiana was trying to save her husband valentin, who was injured in an explosion. she tried to stop the bleeding with tourniquet and kitchen wraps. we have to go to a doctor now. brad tried carrying valentin on his back but couldn t do it alone. we see so he pulled him down every step to the temporary safety of his toyota land cruiser. [speaking non-english] finally, after a harrowing drive [speaking non-english] they made the trial spindle. the written time to swear. today to diana is in western ukraine.