Cork volunteers to help set up hospital for Ukrainians with PTSD

A Ukrainian military liaison officer, aid workers Kateryna Viktorenkova and Victor Danieluk, John Gilroy, and councillor Liam Quaide during the Cork-based charity's recent visit to Ukraine. Picture: John Gilroy. Picture: John Gilroy

An Irish charity, which has already sent tonnes of medical aid to Ukraine, is embarking on a new mission to help set up a hospital there to treat soldiers who have suffered mental and physical injuries in the ongoing brutal war with Russia.

Members of the Crutches4Ukraine group, who previously shipped medical aid to Poland for injured Ukrainians, have just returned after crossing the border into the war-torn country for the first time.