4/ "In July 2024, our platoon was on a combat mission in the Donetsk People's Republic, storming the village of Niu-York (Novgorodskoye)." He was cut off with his platoon after being injured in the fighting. They sheltered for 17 days in a damp basement.
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Drone aid and painful leg injury during a desperate holdout
5/ "Our guys were delivering medicine, ammunition and food via drones to help us hold out," Fedorov says. "I injected painkillers and endured. But my leg swelled up before our eyes, and it wouldn't fit even in the biggest boot."
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Mobilized soldier Fedorov in Volgograd hospital awaiting prosthesis after losing leg
3/ Fedorov is now in hospital in Volgograd and is waiting for a prosthesis to be fitted to replace his missing leg. He told a regional newspaper: "I was mobilized to defend the country and served in the Special Military Operation."
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Man amputates own leg in Donetsk basement after 17 days
2/ 38-year-old Alexander 'Shurik' Fedorov spent 17 days in a basement in the village of New York, Donetsk, and was forced to amputate his own leg, which was festering due to a wound. His fellow soldiers were afraid to do the amputation in the field, so he had to do it himself.
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Yakut soldier amputates own leg due to lack of medical care on front lines
1/ A Russian soldier from Yakutia cut off his own gangrenous leg after spending 17 days on the front line with an untreated severe wound. A lack of medical care and evacuation is reportedly causing wounded Russians to commit suicide or chop off their limbs with axes.
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Irony in NYTimes letter on Biden’s failures and Ukraine’s strain
The irony in this NYTimes letter is striking: the author lays out all the failures under Biden—unreliable support, indecisiveness, and a lack of leadership—while describing Ukraine’s military, economy, and people stretched to the limit 4/
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Ukrainians want weapons and freedom to save lives and reclaim territories
Under Biden, sacrifices in lives and territories already happen without clear prospects of sufficient support or permission to use weapons effectively. What Ukrainians want is weapons and freedom from restrictions to save lives and reclaim what is ours. That wasn’t happening 3/
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Ukraine drones AI jamming resistance
Our story from July 8 @FT
: Ukraine now fields large fleets of drones that can home in on Russian targets using autonomous navigation and AI software that is more resistant to electronic jamming by the enemy. … “In Kyiv, everyone you need to see — from an antenna maker, to a -
Zelenskyy discusses veterans’ support
Zelenskyy stated that he had held a meeting with the Ministry of Veterans Affairs and other government officials to discuss various aspects, including programs and measures to support participants in the Russian-Ukrainian war, as well as the issue of commemorating 'the war and the feat'.
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Zelenskyy: Ukraine’s Internal Victory Plan to Include Policy of Heroes
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the internal Resilience Plan (i.e., the internal victory plan) will contain a clause on the policy of heroes. 1/2