[AMP-L] Ukraine’s Combat Amputees Face a Hard Road Home

[Wayne Renardson]

via Stars & Stripes:

The ground was a thicket of Russian land mines. Lethal. Too many to 
avoid. Oleksandr Fedun, a soldier in the Ukrainian army, remembers 
driving through the field and then a roar of fire, shrapnel and 
light.  

He leaped from the wreckage of his self-propelled howitzer. What was 
left of his legs snapped and splintered when he hit the earth, alive 
- miraculously - and with enough presence of mind to slip on two  
tourniquets. The field hospital, though, was hours away.

The rest of the story, with photos & audio, here:

https://tinyurl.com/2on3osnp

Wayne R.