Wounded, recovered and back to war. Ukrainian soldiers are returning to battle after amputation
Wounded, recovered and back to war. Ukrainian soldiers are returning to battle after amputation
Ukrainian soldiers who lost limbs in the three-year war against Russia are returning to the battlefield out of a sense of duty amid the grim outlook for their country.
Many Ukrainian brigades have at least one, and often several, amputee soldiers still on active duty — men who returned to combat out of a sense of duty amid the grim outlook for their country.
I dunno man. When Russia sends crippled men to the front it's desperate and pathetic, when Ukraine allows it it's honorable and inspiring?
That guy pictured has no hands. I just don't see how he can overcome that to the point where he's not a liability and danger to himself and his comrades.
I don't think this is being framed as inspirational in the article, it's just a depiction of grim determination in the face of an awful situation. I do think that the Ukrainian instances are more "honourable", for whatever is worth, because Ukraine didn't start this and also doesn’t have the same option to just stop it that Russia does, but honour isn't really the point
Regarding the guy in the first photo, Sgt Rubliuk: he's in a training role now. He's a officer, the photos are described as being in training situations, and in the second photo of him he seems to be correcting someone else's posture with a gun. He probably does have quite a lot of experience that he can share with trainees, and he doesn't need to be able to pull a trigger to do that
Rubliuk rejoined the special forces last spring as a senior sergeant in the Artan intelligence unit, training new soldiers and monitoring enemy drones
When Russia
sendsforces crippled men to the front it’s desperate and pathetic, when Ukraine allows it it’s honorable and inspiring?FTFY
I suggest you volunteer with the War Amps (edit: or equivalent Amputee support organization) to broaden your understanding of what is actually possible by people with human spirit.
It's a very different thing to give the amputee crutches and to give them high-quality prosthetics. The Ukrainians you refer to as "cripples" aren't really cripples, because they can move almost normally. Also, they are used very differently: Russian troops need to advance on foot, Ukrainian troops need to arrive to a location in a vehicle and stay to defend it.
I wouldn't say the two cases are very similar at all.
This is actually very important news that is contrary to what I have thought! The Russia mostly is not able to give prostethic legs to its wounded soldiers, Ukraine is. That changes the military loss ratios dramatically!
The ratio of total military losses between Ukraine and the Russia has been around 1:2½, while the ratio between populations is 1:3½. However, the ratio between dead is 1:4½. Anything where the ratio is smaller than the population ratio is favouring Ukraine. Now, if a sizable amount of the non-dead military losses in Ukraine are able to return to duty, then a large share of those are not military losses at all! That would mean that even in the number of military losses including the wounded Ukraine is doing better than the Russia. What share of the "irrecoverable" wounds are losses of limbs? Does anyone know?
It probably doesn't change the losses dramatically. Amputees often suffer from other issues, and it's not every person who has the wherewithal within them to go back into the battlefield after losing a limb. These are brave men and women who choose to do so, but it's doubtful that they're the norm - or even numerically significant.
Hm... A brigade consists of 3000 to 7000 soldiers. And the article says "many" have one or several amputees. That would mean something between 1 in 7000 and 5 in 3000. Yeah, that's in the ballpark of a tenth of a percent or a hundredth of a percent. True, not terribly significant. Though, many of them are probably good trainers!