Wounded Ukrainians vow to keep fighting
Wounded Ukrainians vow to keep fighting
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00:00Over 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers are estimated to have sustained injuries in the battlefield.
00:05For a good number of them, a vow to return to the battlefield is a commitment they intend to
00:10keep sooner than later. BYS Anna Kostyachenko hooked up with some of them and she filed this report.
00:19Kyiv native Serhii Denilets lost his right arm to tank fire in April 2022,
00:25while carrying out a combat mission in the Donbas region in the east of Ukraine.
00:32It was a tank, we got into position and by morning there were only four of us left out
00:37of the whole platoon. He says adaptive sports such as rowing are part of his recovery.
00:45Last month he competed at Kyiv's Open Cup, a national sports event for veterans
00:51who have lost limbs or have been seriously wounded.
00:54Denilets says he plans to be back on the front lines in the fall.
00:59In the winter of 2024, I specifically went to my unit stationed in the city of Balaklia
01:06and passed a military medical commission, which proclaimed I was partially fit for military
01:12service. Veteran and former intelligence officer Ilya Denisenko was fighting in the
01:19Kharkiv region when he was wounded by an anti-personnel mine. Despite his injuries,
01:25he won a silver medal at the US Air Force and Marine Corps trials in Nevada in March.
01:33I have multiple blind shrapnel wounds in both hips and left arm, and my right foot was fractured.
01:38To be honest, it's a miracle that I only got wounded and survived,
01:42because the mine went off very close to where we were.
01:45Artur Mylin lost his right leg in October 2022. Today he is training for the Invictus Games,
01:53adaptive sports competition in Canada, which start in February. They say they have no plans
01:59to stop enjoying their lives or fighting the Russians in any way they can.
02:04Anna Kostyuchenko for Viewing News, Kyiv, Ukraine