Amid Ukraine's ongoing counteroffensive to retake land from Russian forces, doctors are grappling with a demoralizing surge in mine blast injuries.
The mental anguish of amputating limb after limb after limb is a grim reality of Ukraine’s counteroffensive for doctors working in the Zaporizhzhia region.Heavily mined Russian defenses have slowed Ukraine’s attack to a bloody, painstaking crawl, and hard-won gains come at the cost of mine blast injuries more abundant than some medical professionals say they have seen in the war thus far.
“He’s a disabled person. And there are many now,” he said — a rising number of people injured by land mines in Ukraine.of the country estimated to be contaminated by dangerous mines, unexploded bombs, artillery shells and other remnants of war. Hundreds of civilians have been injured, and fertile farmland rendered dangerous or unusable, in a catastrophe experts say will take decades to clear.The start of Ukraine’s counteroffensive brought stark changes to Mialkovskyi’s Zaporizhzhia caseload.
Later, Mialkovskyi said he went to check on the 24-year-old, who had been moved to the intensive care unit. The patient was in grave condition, but to Mialkovskyi’s relief, still alive.
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