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Radio Somerset,5 mins

Former army medic trains Ukrainian soldiers

Claire Carter on BBC Radio Somerset

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Steve Brooks from Shepton Mallet is training new recruits in battlefield first aid. He worked in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a combat medical technician for six years. He tells Claire Carter he's appealing for help to get a tourniquet to every frontline soldier. Image: Steve Brooks (pictured at Hostomel Airport near Kyiv in front of the wreckage of the Antonov 225, the world's biggest cargo aircraft)

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