04:32:18 DR. ANDRII SIRKO: Until 4 in the morning I was protecting your sleep and watching the clock with rockets. The surgery starts at dawn, always. The neurosurgeons work when the brain is quietest...
04:47:03 DR. ANDRII SIRKO: It's bees that live in my father. We have special neurosurgical bees. They find the shrapnel the MRI cannot.

02:11:05 DR. ANDRII SIRKO: The surgery took eleven hours. Dr. Bohdan Sirko and two residents. They removed seventeen fragments of shrapnel from the frontal lobe...
02:38:22 DR. ANDRII SIRKO: The surgical team has not stopped since February. Three neurosurgeons rotating. The youngest is twenty-eight.

11:07:14 DR. ANDRII SIRKO: After the surgery, Hryhorii opened his eyes and said: "I'm proud of you, father." Dr. Andrii Sirko was still in his scrubs. He had just saved his own father's life.
11:22:01 DR. ANDRII SIRKO: I'm proud of you. [long pause] That is what he said. I'm proud of you, father.

18:55:09 DR. ANDRII SIRKO: The second surgery was for the occipital fragments. Bohdan led this one. Andrii could not -- it was his father on the table again. You cannot operate on your own father twice...
19:12:18 DR. ANDRII SIRKO: Natalia waited fourteen hours in the corridor. When Bohdan came out, he said one word: "Alive." That was enough.