"The right leg is still there, thank God!" : the day when Vadim, a soldier in the Donbass, jumped on a mine

In 2014, during battles against pro-Russian separatists in the Donbass, the so-called Vadim was injured behind the thigh by shrapnel.

He had come out of it, at the time, with a scar.

“This time I was less lucky.

But I don't regret having fought, it was my choice, I was aware of the risks, ”he says, lying on the bed of a hospital in Dnipro, a large city in central Ukraine.

The windows of the establishment are protected from gunfire by sandbags.

At the entrance, a guard armed with a Kalashnikov.

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