Russian prosthetics workshops fill up with wounded soldiers

Vsevolozhsk, Russia: After losing his right leg on the battlefield in Ukraine, Dmitry, a former fighter with Russia’s Wagner paramilitary group, is walking again thanks to a new prosthetic limb. With hundreds of thousands of soldiers coming back from the front wounded, Russia’s prosthetics workshops — like the one outside Saint Petersburg where AFP met Dmitry — have been filling up with ex-fighters. Dmitry, 54, had already fought in Syria and for Moscow-backed separatists in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region before Russia launched its full-scale offensive in February 2022.

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