#bc the news is mostly impersonal there are no names mb only their gender and age and u think oh how awful and u move on to the next story

[leeenuu]

There is a cost to war -- to the countries that wage it, to the soldiers who fight it, to the civilians who endure it. For nations, territory is gained and lost, and sometimes regained and lost again. But some losses are permanent. Lives lost can never be regained. Nor can limbs.   And so it is in Ukraine.   The stories of the people who undergo amputations during conflict are as varied as their wounds, as are their journeys of reconciliation with their injuries. For some, losing a part of their body can be akin to a death of sorts; coming to terms with it, a type of rebirth.   For soldiers wounded while defending their country, their sense of purpose and belief in the cause they were fighting for can sometimes help them cope psychologically with amputation. For some civilians, maimed while going about their lives in a war that already terrified them, the struggle can be much harder.   For the men, women and children who have lost limbs in the war in Ukraine, now in its third month, that journey is just beginning.

#war in ukraine #this article came out a couple days ago and i just kept thinking abt it #it's just unimaginable... this is a war of course limbs get blown off -- that is not shocking to me #but when you see the pictures and read their stories which are personal -- it gets more real for me #like i've said before u can think u understand but until u hear these stories u dont understand nothing #bc the news is mostly impersonal there are no names mb only their gender and age and u think oh how awful and u move on to the next story #but when u see their faces and read what jobs they had who have they lost to this war and you can't shake it off #these stories stick with u... or at least i feel that way #which is why i am so damn angry at the west #but also you all should follow emilio morenatti (the photographer) i have used quite a lot of his pics in my posts #bc i cant post all the photos he and his colleagues take