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Ukrainian soldier survives 491 days, amputates own leg, then evacuated by drone
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Ukrainian infantryman Kostiantyn Vlasenko survived 491 days stranded in a battlefield kill zone under Russian fire, hiding in a cramped concrete pipeline and later a cast iron furnace. After losing his left leg to frostbite and amputating his right leg with a blunt knife, he became the first soldier evacuated from a battlefield by drone.
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