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Wounded, recovered and back to war. Ukrainian soldiers are returning to battle after amputation (apnews.com)
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Many Ukrainian brigades have at least one, and often several, amputee soldiers still on active duty β€” men who returned to combat out of a sense of duty amid the grim outlook for their country.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Hm... A brigade consists of 3000 to 7000 soldiers. And the article says "many" have one or several amputees. That would mean something between 1 in 7000 and 5 in 3000. Yeah, that's in the ballpark of a tenth of a percent or a hundredth of a percent. True, not terribly significant. Though, many of them are probably good trainers!