Bili berety

«Білі берети» (Bili berety, "White Berets") is a Ukrainian volunteer medical special-purpose unit (медичний загін спецпризначення) founded in spring 2014. According to its own materials and the Ukrainian Wikipedia entry, the organization was created to prepare specialists with knowledge and skills in first pre-medical aid, the organization of medical aid in emergency and extreme situations, under martial law, and at mass events. It also aims to manage mobile medical points whose members can coordinate medical services on the battlefield, to reinforce any unit, ambulance brigade, police or emergency service with qualified medical assistance in peacetime, and to provide pre-medical aid at mass events before ambulances arrive. The unit is composed of medics and students who volunteer to provide medical assistance to fighters of volunteer detachments and the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Its training camps (вишколи) for volunteer medics are held at the «Червона калина» educational and health complex of Ternopil State Medical University. The first camp took place on 14–16 November 2014 and involved more than 60 volunteer doctors from Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Sumy and Kharkiv oblasts. A second all-Ukrainian camp on 12–14 June 2015 gathered more than one hundred volunteer medics, 80% of whom had already served on the front line. The organization maintains a blog at biliberetu.blogspot.com, where it publishes announcements, registration forms and banking details. The blog identifies the organization as Громадська організація «Медичний загін спецпризначення «Білі берети» with the EDRPOU code 39241744 and an account at PrivatBank. Public references also link the group to training inspectors at the Rivne training ground and to teaching tactical medicine according to NATO standards, including a May 2015 course reported by the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine. The available evidence describes a volunteer, non-commercial medical training and assistance organization rather than a conventional commercial brand.

«Білі берети» was created in spring 2014 as a medical special-purpose unit in the context of the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Its stated purpose was to prepare specialists capable of providing first pre-medical aid, organizing medical aid in emergency and extreme situations, under martial law and at mass events; managing mobile medical points; coordinating medical services on the battlefield; reinforcing units, ambulance brigades, police or emergency services with qualified medical assistance in peacetime; and providing pre-medical aid at mass events before ambulances arrive. The organization is made up of medics and students who volunteer to provide medical assistance to fighters of volunteer detachments and the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Training camps for volunteer medics are held at the «Червона калина» educational and health complex of Ternopil State Medical University. The first camp took place on 14–16 November 2014 and involved more than 60 volunteer doctors from Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Sumy and Kharkiv oblasts. The organization's blog announced that applications were accepted until 12 November 2014, 18:00, and that participation was open exclusively to doctors and feldshers, who were required to have tactical protective goggles, a hard hat and, where possible, equipment. Organizers provided transport to the event, accommodation and meals; travel costs were reimbursed only upon presentation of tickets, and travel in SV and compartment cars and on Hyundai trains was not compensated. Participation was free. A second all-Ukrainian camp took place on 12–14 June 2015 and involved more than one hundred volunteer medics, 80% of whom had already been on the front line. Public references also describe the group training inspectors at the Rivne training ground in April 2015 and teaching tactical medicine according to NATO standards in May 2015, including a course reported by the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine. The organization maintains a blog at biliberetu.blogspot.com, where it publishes announcements and banking details under the name Громадська організація «Медичний загін спецпризначення «Білі берети» (EDRPOU 39241744).

• 2015

  Second all-Ukrainian training camp held on 12–14 June 2015 with more than one hundred volunteer medics, 80% of whom had already been on the front line.

• 2015

  Public references describe training inspectors at the Rivne training ground in April 2015 and teaching tactical medicine according to NATO standards in May 2015.

• 2014

  «Білі берети» is created in spring 2014 as a medical special-purpose unit.

• 2014

  First all-Ukrainian training camp for volunteer medics held on 14–16 November 2014 with more than 60 doctors from Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Sumy and Kharkiv oblasts.

1. 1ГРОМАДСЬКА ОРГАНІЗАЦІЯ “МЕДИЧНИЙ ЗАГІН СПЕЦПРИЗНАЧЕННЯ “БІЛІ БЕРЕТИ”biliberetu.blogspot.com
2. 2Bili beretywikidata.org
3. 3Білі беретиuk.wikipedia.org