Quotes
It’s only good for fishing,
jokes the 34-year-old about a hobby he still enjoys I thought he was dead,
said the soldier, who did not give his name in compliance with special forces rules I quickly accepted the fact that my leg was gone. What’s the point of mourning? Crying and worrying won’t bring it back,
It’s an experience you wouldn’t wish on anyone,
Everyone must walk their own path, and there will be challenges along the way. You can try to escape your fate, but it will always catch up with you,
I never doubted for a moment that it could be any different,
Every new day is part of my rehabilitation,
As long as the war continues, I won’t leave. I’ll help in any way I can,
At first, I did not like this job. When I returned to service, I was ready to go back to the infantry.”
We have to fight. I do not think that (the war) will be over soon,
I am surprised that (my body) preserved so well,
I lived a calm and peaceful life until Russians came,
For personal confidence in life, you need to come out of this not as someone broken by the war and written off, but as someone they tried to break — but couldn’t. You came back, proved you could still do something, and you’ll step away only when you decide to,
I returned because I knew that the skills I have are needed in the army,
We're rehabilitating ourselves!"
said Eduard, a serviceman whose son died fighting alongside him just days earlier I want to get rid of this evil as soon as possible and live a civilian life,
he told AFP, pacing his room at the rehabilitation centre We've all seen old Soviet films with veterans of the war in Afghanistan in the street, vodka in their hands,
There was a fairly high level of people who suffered from addictions, who committed suicide, and who fell into depression,
Why aren't the men in the street fighting? We, the lower classes, are fighting. The others are going to nightclubs!"
Our foreign colleagues say we have achieved in a short time what some countries would have taken 10 years to do,
