Wounded ATO heroes

War...How many human lives are lost, how many people are crippled in that war in Donbas in 2014-2015! On 6th March 2015 Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Yuriy Serheyev named the official ciphers of the losses of Ukrainian warriors: 1541 killed and 6256 injured since the beginning of so-called ATO in Donbas in March, 2014. How many strong and healthy Ukrainian men became cripples because of this war! Here are a few short stories of mutilations of Ukrainian soldiers to understand war cruelty and its possibility to change human destiny forever. 

23-year-old Taras M., a soldier of the 128th separate mountainous-infantry brigade from Ivano-Frankivsk region, he had gotten hard wounds in Artemivsk during one battle with Russian enemies. Nowadays he has wounded abdomen, bladder and rectum and fractured pelvis' bones, and he breathes through special tube...39-year-old Valeriy K., a soldier-volunteer from Kharkiv region, was injured with a bomb in Staryy Aydar during mortar shelling of Russians. He has many fragmentation wounds, fractured ribs, broken thigh. His right hand was amputated to the elbow and his right lung was wounded throughout...22-year-old Viktor L., military man from Lviv region, had gotten heavy mutilations yet on 16th August 2014 in ATO zone, but one fragment of the exploded bomb still is in his spine and he can't walk also because of his wounded left side of the thorax, injuries of spinal cord, left shoulder and left lung, fractures of ribs and left shoulder-blade...24-year-old Oleksandr M., a soldier of the 26th Berdychiv separate artillery brigade from Zhytomyr region, had gotten hard injuries on 8th November 2014 in Donbas, after what had been moved to the hospital, where he was in coma and had two difficult operations earlier, and where stays now with wounded one leg, head, collar-bone and both lungs...22-year-old Volodymyr Sh. from Sumy region was crippled on 6th February 2015 in Debaltseve and then he had lost much blood. Now he can eat only through special tube, has concussion of the brain, face's fragmentation injuries and fractured jaw...21-year-old Yuriy Kh., a soldier of contract from Chernivtsi region, served in the 25th Dnipropetrovsk airborne brigade and had gotten multiple fragmentation wounds of whole body, when one fragmentation grenade tore near him in Kramatorsk on 29th July 2014. Doctors have already took out 47 fragments from his body, but some fragments still go out from the injuries. Besides it soldier is contused, has brain's slaughter and paralysis of the facial nerve, and acute left-sided deafness. Having several operations earlier, he still stays in the hospital and needs to put medical plate on absent part of the skull and aural implant on the left ear...26-year-old Oleksandr K., "Aydar" battalion's volunteer from Cherkasy was mutilated nearly Shchastya on 13th October 2014. Doctors removed him a spleen in the hospital, where he was in 3-days coma and had celebral edema, and now he remembers almost nothing...20-year-old Roman Ya., a soldier of contract from Volyn region, was shelled with bomb thrower on 9th November 2014 and got serious fragmentation injuries, especially in back and neck. He can't see out of left eye and can't hear out of right ear...25-year-old Ivan K., a soldier of the 39th Dnipropetrovsk battalion of territorial defence from Zaporizhzhya, was crippled during military missions in Kramatorsk, when one defective grenade tore in his hands, which he lost both. He also lost right eye and doctors try to save him left eye. And then he got multiple fragmentation wounds of the face and leg's trauma...35-year-old Oleh K., a soldier of the 128th separate mountainous-infantry brigade from Transcarpathian region, had gotten heavy traumas and burns as result of one explosion in Debaltseve. Then 40% of his body was burnt, but his face and both hands were involved the most in a burn...27-years-old Taras K., a soldier of the 80th aeromobile brigade from Ivano-Frankivsk region, was seriously mutilated in Donetsk airport in January of 2015. His one kidney and two lungs were injured and doctors had to remove that crippled kidney, and nowadays he still stays in the hospital's reanimation...31-year-old Roman H., a lieutenant of the 24th mechanized brigade from Lviv region, had been crippled very much in Debaltseve on 13th February 2015. Then he got fractures of the spine in three places and needs operation on his spine. He also has fragmentation wounds, fractures of several ribs and left hand. Doctors have already operated his torn lung, but what is the worst that he doesn't feel his body below breast bone...30-year-old Oleksandr T., a soldier of the 30th mechanized brigade from Zhytomyr region, had been wounded near Rubizhne in June of 2014 and had gotten bullet injury in the head and fragmentation injuries in the left shoulder. Earlier he was in hospital's reanimation and his right side of the body was totally paralysed and now his right hand still doesn't move. Bullet touched his brain and he is teaching to speak all over again, and needs the operations to remove the bullet from his head and to put platinum plate on the skull...52-year-old Kostyantyn M. from Chernihiv region had been mutilated in Debaltseve on 18th February 2015 and has fractures of right collar-bone, right shoulder and right shoulder-blade, concussion of both lungs, through-injury of right lung, subcutaneous emphysema of right side of breast bone...29-year-old Ivan Ya., a soldier of "Aydar" volunteer battalion from Poltava region, had gotten heavy bullet and fragmentation wounds of the head, two legs and one hand in Luhansk region on 15th October 2014. Then Russian terrorists took him in captivity, cut off his left ear and let him go only after 27 days of the captivity. Nowadays he needs an operation to remove one fragment from his head...24-year-old Dmytro P., a soldier-volunteer from Lviv region, had gotten injuries of abdomen and liver, fractures of collar-bones and ribs after one Russian shell of "Grad" on 28th October 2014. Beeing operated, he stays in medium-heavy state in the hospital...34-year-old Serhiy O., a soldier of the 25th "Kyiv Rus" volunteer battalion from Kyiv region, had gotten multiple fragmentation wounds of whole body, especially serious wounds of duodenum, intestine, abdomen after mortar shelling of Russians in Debaltseve on 10th February 2015...23-year-old Vadym D., officer of special service from Kirovohrad, lost left hand in one battle for Debaltseve, and lying in the snow during 4 days and losing the blood, he got deep frostbite of both feet, which were amputated in the hospital later...32-year-old Oleksandr S. from Ternopil had been wounded in Debaltseve on 5th February 2015, when some grenade exploded nearly him and crippled his face and one hand, tore off one leg...46-year-old Yuriy S., a soldier of the 25th "Kyiv Rus" volunteer battalion from Kyiv region, was injured in Debaltseve during mortar shelling of the enemies. His mutilations: fragmentation wound of neck, torn larynx, broken trachea, mandible and its teeth, fragments in right foot and left shoulder. He eats only through medical probe and can't speak...In January of 2015 one shell exploded near 26-year-old Andriy K., a soldier of the 95th aeromobile brigade from Zhytomyr region. That explosion burnt 30% of his body and wounded his right lung, right thigh, breast bone and abdomen. He dreams to find little girl, which he saved from another explosion near Slovyansk in the summer of 2014, when shell killed her parents...35-year-old Vitaliy P., a soldier of the 72nd mechanized brigade from Kyiv region, has strong headache and frequent losses of consciousness after one fight in ATO zone in August of 2014. Doctors operated the anomalous vessels in his head and he had a stroke in 3 days after that operation, and then - another operation and 10 days in coma. Since this time his left side of the body is paralysed and he often has convulsions. Coming back from Donbas, he went grey, began to stutter and get hard psychological traumas...31-year-old Arsen B., a soldier of the 24th mechanized brigade from Volyn region, was crippled in October of 2014, when Russian soldiers fired Ukrainian warriors in Luhansk region. Explosion of the shell mutilated his head and left eye and he can't see out of this eye. Doctors took out one fragment from the head and removed part of his skull. His right side of body is paralysed and he can't speak...26-year-old Andriy Z., a soldier of the 17th tank brigade from Kryvyy Rih, had been injured nearly Popasna on 13th October 2014 and since that time he has terrible pain because of the fragment in his wounded thigh. He had almost 20 operations on the leg, which was amputated above knee at last...24-year-old Oleksiy Z. from Vinnytsya region had been injured and contused on 2nd February 2015. He got injuries of the eyes, concussion of the brain, fractures of left wrist and mandible, amputation of both legs in the different places...20-year-old Oleksandr R., medical assistant of the 101st separate brigade of the defence of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Vinnytsya region, had been shelled with mortars and "Grad" near Debaltseve on 6th December 2014 and was seriously mutilated: broken ribs, injured lungs, liver and kidney...29-year-old Serhiy D., a soldier of the 72nd mechanized brigade from Kyiv region, was shelled and taken in the captivity for long 7 weeks by separatists of so-called DNR in September of 2014, but then he was exchanged. Bullet wounded his back, pelvis and abdomen and now he must take analgesics every day...21-years-old Vasyl B. from Kirovohrad region was attacked by Russian soldiers, when he was in the armored personnel carrier with other Ukrainian warriors in Debaltseve in February of 2015. He got heavy injuries of the face and broken left hand, and he lost wrist of right hand...
And it's written very small part of all sufferings of these brave Ukrainian men who were wounded in ATO zone, fighting for Ukraine. Those who saw a lot of blood, deaths of their fellows, horror of the war, hospital's reanimation. Who feel terrible pain and must struggle for own life again and again, but not on the field of the battle, but on the beds in the wards. Who became cripples in Ukraine, where the majority of public places is not adapted for them, where it's very hard to find them a job and to be normally integrated in the society like it's easy to do for the invalids in highly developed countries. And it will be unfair if I don't name You another existent problem of injured ATO heroes - frequent thefts of big sums from their bank accounts, which were opened in "Privatbank" to get money for needful operations. There are known at least 5 accidents of such thefts from "Privatbank" accounts of 5 Ukrainian soldiers since the beginning of 2015 year and the thieves aren't caught yet and money, gathered by various people for these Ukrainian warriors, aren't come back to bank accounts' owners. What a shameful treatment of present Ukrainian state power to the defenders of Ukraine, who lost their health in the fight for Ukrainian land.