Two New Mexican first responders and a photographer spent a month in Ukraine providing medical assistance to residents during the Russian invasion, KOB 4 reported.

The men traveled to Ukraine as part of a Humanitarian Aid and Rescue Project. They spent much of their time there teaching Ukrainians about medical care. They also started a trauma stabilization point outside of Kyiv to assist wounded soldiers. The men hope it will continue to operate when they are gone, according to KOB 4.  

"If soldiers, civilians, or whoever, got hit on the front line in an area, they would come in an ambulance to us first and then be stabilized there and then move on to the hospital," Chris Hammond, a Los Alamos ER doctor and one of the men on the trip, told KOB 4. "Because, in trauma, most people will die within the first hour, and it's about an hour [from] the front line to the hospital so we're providing a stop-gap to stabilize, between the front line and the hospital."

Santa Fe firefighter Rollin Jones and freelance photographer Stefan Wachs were the other men who traveled to Ukraine with Hammond.

"It was a tiny, little piece of humanity in a place that is extremely cruel," Hammond said. "It feels good and it also feels extremely helpless to know what is happening and what has happened; we can only play a little, tiny piece of that."