Felipe VI visits the Ukrainian wounded admitted to Zaragoza

King Felipe VI has once again shown his support for the Ukrainian people for the second time since the war broke out. The monarch visited the General Defense Hospital on Thursday, where he met with the Ukrainian soldiers who have been hospitalized in the medical center for months treating their war wounds.

Don Felipe has shared a few minutes with them, learned their stories and has been interested in the hospital protocol for treating these patients, who in most cases need prostheses and remain hospitalized in Zaragoza for several months.. The King has known, for example, the story of Oleksander that EL MUNDO already told. This paramedic arrived in Zaragoza on February 21. On the front line, he lost four fingers on his right hand and both legs.

This has been the second contact of Don Felipe with Ukrainian victims of the war. In April 2022, the King and the Queen and her daughters visited the Pozuelo de Alarcón Refugee Center, where they learned first-hand about the history of some women and minor children who had recently arrived from Ukraine.. Since the war broke out, both Don Felipe and Doña Letizia have shown their firm condemnation of the invasion of Russia.

In the Military Hospital of Zaragoza, 19 wounded Ukrainian soldiers remain hospitalized. They are part of the 53 who have already passed through the aforementioned hospital since the war began in February 2022.. In the coming days, six or seven more victims are expected to arrive in the Aragonese capital.

In a very emotional act, the Ukrainians have given the Monarch a flag of their country signed by all of them. For about twenty minutes Felipe VI has talked with the wounded, seven of them in wheelchairs.

During the act, the director of the hospital center, General Juan Antonio Lara, and the president of the Ukrainian Association of Residents in Aragon, Alina Klochko, were present.

The wounded soldiers have expressed their gratitude for the meeting with Felipe VI and for the treatment they are receiving at the military hospital in the Aragonese capital.

Likewise, the King congratulated Alina Klochko, who has received two medals from the Ministry of Defense for her support for her country in the fifteen months of the conflict.

A Ukrainian rehabilitation doctor and a physiotherapist have joined the meeting, who have just arrived at the Zaragoza Military Hospital to learn how to place prostheses in the arms and legs of war victims.

Two weeks are expected to pass and then every 14 days another two new physicians can attend to continue with this type of training.