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Deep Trenches 'Allow You To Walk Straight': Ukrainian Amputee Soldier Returns To Front Lines


Deep Trenches 'Allow You To Walk Straight': Ukrainian Amputee Soldier Returns To Front Lines
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Ukrainian soldier Artem Kholodkevych says he had no interest in taking a safe desk job far from the front after losing his leg to a Russian mine. After five months of walking with a prosthetic limb, he can move around the defensive trenches his fellow soldiers live in. His only request: digging deeper trenches -- both to keep fit and to make the temporary shelters safer for Ukrainian troops fighting off Russia's full-scale invasion.

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