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🇺🇦 Tens of thousands of Ukrainian Armed Forces lost limbs during the conflict in Ukraine, which is 10 times higher than the number of US military personnel maimed in Iraq and Afghanistan over 20 years - Sky News.

On August 1, the Wall Street Journal reported that up to 50 thousand Ukrainians had lost one or more limbs.

Now American physician Mike Corcoran, one of the founders of the medical center for orthopedics and prosthetics in the United States, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine undergo rehabilitation, said that during the war, Ukrainians often apply a tourniquet too high from the wound and leave it for too long. As a result, the cells of the limb die, and the entire arm or leg has to be removed, and not just part of it.
And this process is carried out “in the most terrible conditions.”