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Maclean’s Magazine
“Ukraine’s other war: The fight to heal soldiers’ bodies and minds”
http://www.macleans.ca/news/world/ukraines-other-war-the-fight-to-heal-soldiers-bodies-and-minds/
Photo Credit: Adriana Luhovy
June 22, 2015

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Article by: Christian Borys

Photo – Inside a military hospital in Kyiv, Canadian-backed doctors are fighting to save battle-scarred soldiers

Sergey, a 23-year-old Ukrainian soldier, is resting in a drab, grey, Soviet-era military hospital on the outskirts of Kyiv. Asked about his recent combat experience, he says, “I just wish that nobody would ever have to see war.” Sergey (who asked that his last name not be used for privacy reasons) suffered massive head trauma during a fight that occurred just outside the enemy stronghold of Luhansk.

“The main challenges

[for the soldiers] are acquiring a new meaning of life and integrating into peaceful life, because it’s equally hard to adapt to war and, later, to adapt to peace,” he says. “If the soldiers haven’t adapted their minds, they’ll get stuck at the front and will remain stuck there.”

 

 

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