With temperatures at -20°C, the URCS emergency response team provides first aid amidst the violence.
URCS emergency response team leader Taras Logginov gives a short interview to local journalists.
A URCS first-aider flushes the eye of a protester affected by tear gas.
Members of the URCS emergency response team transfer a man to hospital after giving him first aid.
URCS first-aiders carry a casualty to an ambulance.
URCS volunteers enjoy a rare few minutes' break from treating people injured during the Maidan protests.
A URCS first-aider treats a Maidan activist's leg wound.
Members of the emergency response team dress a head wound.
URCS volunteers prepare to go on patrol.
The URCS emergency response team assesses the condition of an activist who has just received a bullet wound.
Seconds after this photo was taken, fiirst-aider Roman Kotliarevskyi (with beard, wearing purple gloves) himself became a casualty when a bullet hit him in the leg
The URCS Kharkiv emergency response team stands by to provide first aid during protests.
Members of the URCS Kharkiv emergency response team give first aid to a person injured during protests.
URCS first-aiders treat a casualty of the protests.
As soon as protests began in Kiev in November 2013, a group of Ukrainian Red Cross volunteers started providing first aid to people injured during the clashes and evacuating them from the danger zones. This group went on to form the core of the 60-member emergency response team set up in Kiev on 1 December 2013.