Police dog handler was injured while assisting victims of enemy shelling in Kherson
On May 3, Russian occupation forces massively attacked Kherson. Enemy attacks from the “Grad” and artillery hit the vital objects of the city, where many people were at that time.
People were killed in a supermarket in the Dnipro district, and the wounded were waiting for help. It was at that time that the employees of the explosives group, returning from the task, moved along the Beryslav highway. The group included Olena Petrolai, an inspector of the canine center of the GUNP in the Kiev region, who arrived in Kherson at the end of April as part of a consolidated squad of police officers.
The police sergeant recalls that she and her colleagues immediately rushed to help people. After the enemy shell hit, many people remained inside the store, the entrance was blocked by fragments of metal structures, and there were wounded and dead in the trading hall.
The dog inspector, together with colleagues, began to disassemble the rubble to help people get out, provided them with first aid, and stopped bleeding. People had lacerated wounds, penetrating wounds and severed limbs.
Due to the severity of the condition of the victims, they could not immediately be taken out into the street, and within a few minutes a second arrival from the RSVR occurred to the store.
According to Elena, because of the strong tension, she did not even feel that she was wounded by debris. The blast wave threw her to the ground and only then she saw that her arms and legs were covered in blood.
The policeman was taken to a medical institution, now she is undergoing treatment in Nikolaev. Once she recovers, Elena wants to return to Kherson, where, together with her service shepherd Pan, she will help the explosives in the mining and liberation of the occupied left bank, especially Arabatska Strelka of the Genichesky district, where the policeman comes from.
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