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Despite losing limbs, Ukrainian sappers return to work clearing land mines
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KHARKIV REGION, Ukraine, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Andrii Ilkiv, a Ukrainian police sapper, had his leg amputated below the knee after a land mine blew up beneath him in September 2022.
The 37-year-old father of four is one of 14 sappers who have returned to their demining jobs in a national police unit of some 100 people, despite being wounded in blasts while clearing mines during Russia’s invasion.
Ilkiv, wounded when an anti-personnel mine exploded in the village of Dementiivka in the Kharkiv region, said he decided to return because of the large volume of mine-clearance work still to be done, an argument that he presented to his wife.
“At first you don’t feel pain, and you can use this moment of numbness to perform first aid – put on the tourniquet, before the state of shock comes over you.”
Valeri Onul, another sapper, also returned to work in the unit despite losing a leg in a blast in November.
“Many thoughts crowded my mind, I do not know how many per second, but there was one crazy wish, after I was brought to hospital and I regained my senses, already then, I wanted to get back to work.”
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