Upward of 20,000 Ukrainian amputees face trauma on a scale unseen since World War I

The horrors of war!

Not everybody is as lucky as this young man:

"Yurchuk's left arm was gone below the elbow and his right leg above the knee. In the 18 months since, Yurchuk has regained his equilibrium, both mentally and physically. He met the woman who would become his wife at the rehabilitation hospital, where she was a volunteer. And he now cradles their infant daughter and takes her for walks without the slightest hesitation. His new hand and leg are in stark black. ..."

"... There are not nearly enough prosthetic specialists in Ukraine to handle the growing need, said Olha Rudneva, the head of the Superhumans center for rehabilitating Ukrainian military amputees. Before the war, she said, only five people in all of Ukraine had formal rehabilitation training for people with arm or hand amputations, which in normal circumstances are less common than legs and feet as those sometimes are amputated due to complications with diabetes or other illnesses. ..."

Upward of 20,000 Ukrainian amputees face trauma on a scale unseen since WWI - ABC News Ukraine is facing a future with upward of 20,000 amputees, many of them soldiers who are also suffering psychological trauma from their time at the front