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    The Wider Image: One Ukrainian war amputee’s return to civilian

    Oleksandr Revtiukh (R), 33, a Ukrainian serviceman who lost his left arm and most of his left leg in multiple mine blasts in 2023, pulls fellow wheelchair-bound veteran Bohdan Tanchyn with his electric wheelchair, in the garden of the Recovery Rehabilitation Center, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine October 31, 2023. Eight months after losing his left arm and most of his left leg in mine blasts while fighting in Ukraine, Revtiukh's old life is gone. Only two years ago he had enjoyed a comfortable civilian life as an electronics technician abroad, before he returned to Ukraine to sign up and fight the Russian invasion. Now he has to accept what has happened to him and learn to live without his lost limbs. "It's like being a newborn child," he said. "You've got to get to know the world from scratch." REUTERS/Thomas Peter
    The Wider Image: One Ukrainian war amputee’s return to civilian
    The Wider Image: One Ukrainian war amputee’s return to civilian

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