Football warriors: Ukrainian amputees get back on the ball

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KYIV, Ukraine—Goalkeeper Yevgen Nazarenko laughed as he warmed up on a football pitch in Kyiv. He had been asked to

Nearby Oleg, who has only one foot, groaned and lost balance as he did press-ups.Once or twice a week, a dozen or so amputees get together in the Ukrainian capital for football training.

But last December “a bastard shot at me with a grenade launcher attached to a rifle from about seven metres” as he fought near Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.“If he had held the rifle more firmly, he would have hit me somewhere in the middle of my chest and I would not be playing here now,” he added. In the five-a-side game, goalkeeper Nazarenko was a whirl of energy, his T-shirt soaked with sweat, its left sleeve hanging empty.

The 31-year-old had his right leg amputated below the knee after he was wounded by shelling close to Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine in May 2022.

 

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