REPORTING – These two soldiers, seriously injured in early December while defending a position in the south of the country, nevertheless continued to resist valiantly despite the incessant fire of Russian artillery.
- Special envoy to Odessa and Lutsk
He returns from hell, and his eyes shine with a singular brilliance. Sitting in a café in the suburbs of Odessa, his hometown, Denys struggles to contain his emotion when he recounts his desperate resistance, in the heart of last winter, under enemy fire. Every now and then his jaw locks and his eyes glaze over with tears. ” It’s a miraclehe sighs, that I survived all of this. » The former soldier, seated in his wheelchair, feverishly sucks on his pipe under the attentive supervision of his nephew, a strapping man with a bushy beard who now accompanies him everywhere. Because Denys, who remained eleven days without receiving treatment after being seriously injured in the legs in the position he was responsible for defending, had to undergo a double amputation. “When they saw me arrive at the hospital in Zaporizhia , he smiles, the military doctors couldn’t believe I could still be alive…”
Albert Lorès for Le Figaro
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