Ukraine, murdered relief doctor Pete Reed: he had helped over 10,000 people

By Cristiano Antonino On Feb 6, 2023

Pete Reed, 34, was hit by a Russian missile while evacuating civilians in Bakhmut in Ukraine. Despite his young age, he had been serving conflict victims for years, first in Iraq and then in Ukraine

“He was evacuating civilians and treating the wounded when his ambulance was hit by Russian fire in Bakhmut. He died doing what he loved and saving a member of his team with his own body’.

It is the wife of Pete Reed, the US doctor killed yesterday by a Russian missile in Ukraine, who recounts the exact dynamics in which her husband lost his life.

According to the Kyiv Independent, five other people were also injured in the bombing in which the American volunteer was killed.

Reed, 34, had travelled to Ukraine as a volunteer only a few weeks ago to provide aid and make his experience as a war doctor available to the army in Kiev.

Reed had already led a team of doctors in Mosul, Iraq, treating more than 10,000 patients

When he decided to leave for Ukraine, the American volunteer chose Bakhmut, the city in the south-east of the country that has been the scene of violent clashes with the Russian army for weeks.

Who was Pete Reed

Originally from Bordentown, New Jersey, Reed served in Afghanistan as a rifleman in the Marine Corps.

After leaving the army in 2015, he had embarked on medical training in northern Iraq, supporting Kurdish forces.

In the following years, Reed also founded an international medical NGO, Global Response Medicine, which provides emergency care in war zones and is run almost entirely by US military veterans.

With Grm, Reed has participated in first aid operations in Iraq, Yemen, Syria and Poland.

His brother, Chandler Reed, remembered him as follows: ‘He was a good madman. He always selflessly put himself in harm’s way to help others’.

According to the Kyiv Independent, the bombing in which the American doctor lost his life also injured five other people.