A total of 29 injured military personnel, accompanied by family members, arrived on a special medical train in the southern Polish city of Kraków on Thursday, state news agency PAP reported.
The soldiers have typical war injuries, for instance from gunshot wounds, as well as from bomb, mine and missile explosions, according to officials.
They need further surgical treatment; however, their life is not in danger, reporters were told.
Vyacheslav Voynarovsky, Ukraine’s Consul General in Kraków, told the media: “I relayed to the soldiers that they are welcome in Poland and that we’ve been waiting for them; they are very grateful for this.”
Łukasz Kmita, the governor of Poland's southern Małopolskie province, said that “more such transports will follow” and that “local hospitals are on standby to receive the wounded” from the frontlines of Ukraine’s struggle against the Russian invasion.
Fifteen injured servicemen were taken immediately to hospitals in and around Kraków. The remaining 14 travelled on to the southern city of Katowice.
“Depending on the type of injuries, the soldiers will be taken to hospitals where they can receive the best treatment,” said the governor of Poland's Śląskie province, Jarosław Wieczorek.
He thanked everyone involved in bringing the Ukrainian servicemen to Katowice, from railway workers to policemen, firefighters and the ambulance service.
The special medical train was provided by Poland’s health ministry, the PAP news agency reported.
Earlier this month, the train brought 32 injured Ukrainian soldiers, who were then hospitalised in the eastern city of Lublin, in the capital Warsaw, in nearby Otwock and the central city of Łódź, the PAP news agency reported.
Friday is day 156 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Source: PAP, gazetakrakowska.pl