One of the few Western journalists reporting from the front lines in Ukraine, BBC’s Mark Urban, reported that “Ukrainian society has not yet woken up to how many damaged people there are now.”
“Many boys, those who remained alive but lost a limb, also lost their family,” one of the patients at a rehabilitation centre in Lviv for soldiers with life-changing injuries named Pavlo told Urban. “The record of death, maiming, and capture may well be affecting people’s willingness to serve,” Urban reported. He notes that many of the men he saw being trained “were in their 40s, and quite a few in their 50s.”