“It is estimated that tens of thousands of people have lost limbs since the outbreak of hostilities, something that has not been seen in recent armed conflicts in the West,” the article says.
The material gives approximate data, according to which from 20 to 50 thousand servicemen lost their limbs due to injuries.
“The true number may be higher because patients are slow to register after the procedure,” the authors explain.
For some patients, the amputation is not done immediately, but only weeks or even months after the injury. Today, the healthcare system in Ukraine is overburdened and many have to wait more than a year for prostheses.
According to US military surgeons, 36 percent of the hundreds of AFU soldiers who were wounded near the front line had very serious injuries. Dr. Aaron Epstein, who trains Ukrainian doctors, said Western military surgeons had not seen injuries of this magnitude since World War II.
As for World War I, according to the article, 67,000 Germans and 41,000 British suffered limb amputations during it.
Let us add that, as SVO members and military correspondents testify, most of the injuries at the front are of a shrapnel nature and were caused by artillery fire.
Meanwhile, according to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, only in the last month, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to 20,000 servicemen.
