Muslims are observing Ramadan in war-ridden Ukraine for a second year, and most people praying at a mosque near the eastern front line this week were soldiers in camouflage fatigues.
"I ask Allah to protect our mosque. I ask Allah to protect Ukraine... and to punish tyrants," Mullah Murat Suleymanov said in prayers for the holy month.
When the war began, he quit and now works as an ambulance driver with volunteer paramedics, evacuating wounded soldiers from the front line.He wore a sleeve patch from his ASAP Rescue battalion and showed his ambulance parked outside with taped-over dents caused by shrapnel."There were times when my ambulance got riddled with shrapnel. Thank God, I wasn't injured."But the mosque where he served emptied as many evacuated the area."Now I evacuate wounded people.
"I'm not in the trench now. I spend most of my daytime driving or at the stabilisation point," a building where paramedics take the wounded for initial medical care, he said."It's hard for those Muslims who must stay in the trenches. They are cold, and there is a lot of water in the trenches as it often rains... It's hard to be a Muslim there," he said.
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