During the period from 15 February to 15 March 2014, the Ukrainian national personnel are being withdrawn from Ghazni Province in Afghanistan to Ukraine.

For over three years, Ukrainian military medics worked as part of the Polish Military Contingent of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, which is deployed in Ghazni Province.

During this period, they have conducted thousands of surgeries and provided medical treatment and health care in order to save lives and health of both ISAF troops and the local population. Ukrainian military medics were also regularly engaged in conducting aero-medical evacuation of wounded ISAF servicemen and Afghan National Security Forces soldiers.

High professionalism of Ukrainian specialists and their dedication have been repeatedly noted by the Polish contingent leadership.

The redeployment of the Polish field hospital, at which Ukrainian medics had served, is executed as part of a gradual downsizing of troops and equipment of the international coalition in Afghanistan.

Background: since 2011, three Ukrainian military doctors (specialists in surgery, anesthesiology and general therapy) served as part of the Polish Contingent in Afghanistan, according to the Technical Agreement Between the Minister of National Defence of the Republic of Poland and the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine on the Deployment  of the Ukrainian Peacekeeping Personnel in the Polish Military Contingent in Ghazni Province, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, within the Framework of the International Security Assistance Force.