DONETSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian intelligence soldier doesn’t know how long his clinical death lasted after an explosive detonated beneath him.
All Andrii Rubliuk remembers is overwhelming cold, darkness and fear. When he regained consciousness in his shattered body — missing both arms and his left leg — excruciating pain engulfed him, and hallucinations clouded his mind.
“It’s an experience you wouldn’t wish on anyone,” the now 38-year-old says.
Leonid Lobchuk, a soldier with Ukraine’s 127th brigade who lost a leg in combat in eastern Ukraine in 2015, takes the camouflage off his self-propelled howitzer in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy
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