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A group of Ukrainian soldiers<\/a> moves swiftly through a front-line training ground, overcoming obstacles and firing at distant targets. They are fine-tuning their battle skills here as Ukraine\u2019s counteroffensive against Russian forces rages just few miles to the south.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One fighter, Danilo, who is only being identified by his first name for security reasons, stands out. He is fast and accurate, but his movements are different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another glance reveals the reason for his slight limp \u2013 he has a prosthetic limb where his lower right leg used to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m still getting in the shape I used to be,\u201d Danilo told CNN with a smirk. \u201cThere is still a lot of work ahead\u2026 And even more to the perfect shape.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Danilo lost his lower right leg early in Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year. He and his unit were on a mission when they came under fire and he stepped on a landmine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His maiming, and similar injuries to many others, both soldiers and civilians, are just one of the many consequences of Russia\u2019s brutal war on Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Moscow\u2019s forces have littered<\/a> an estimated 170,000 square kilometers (65,637 square miles) of the Ukrainian countryside with landmines \u2013 an area the size of Florida \u2013 a large portion of them along the southern front, in a bid to halt Kyiv\u2019s counteroffensive. International think tank GLOBSEC found Ukraine to be the most mined country in the world<\/a> in a report published in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CNN: A group of Ukrainian soldiers moves swiftly through a front-line training ground, overcoming obstacles and firing at distant targets. They are fine-tuning their battle skills here as Ukraine\u2019s counteroffensive against Russian forces rages just few miles to the south. One fighter, Danilo, who is only being identified by his first name for security reasons, stands out. He is fast and accurate, but his movements are different. Another glance reveals the reason for his slight limp \u2013 he has a prosthetic limb where his lower right leg used to be. \u201cI\u2019m still getting in the shape I used to be,\u201d… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35212,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35210\/revisions\/35212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}