Hospital sees 30% rise in seriously wounded Ukrainian soldiers, says doctor

Dr. Sergii Ryzhenko told ABC News that the Mechnikov Hospital in the city of Dnipro is now receiving between 40 and 100 seriously wounded men each day.

DNIPRO, Ukraine -- The number of heavily wounded soldiers being treated at one of Ukraine's largest trauma hospitals has risen by as much as 30% in the past few weeks, according to the chief doctor there.

Dr. Sergii Ryzhenko told ABC News that the Mechnikov Hospital in the city of Dnipro, a few hours' drive from the fighting, is now receiving between 40 and 100 seriously wounded men each day, with his team performing between 50 and 100 surgical operations in any 24-hour period.

Many of those procedures are amputations, he said.

Lying in his hospital bed with the left side of his face burnt and blackened, 22-year-old Nazar is one of the latest soldiers to have had a limb removed at the hospital.

Medical teams at the Mechnikov have amputated the limbs of around 3,000 soldiers since Russia's full-scale war began, said Ryzhenko.