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Left for Dead on Battlefield, Ukrainian Officer Recovers at US Military Hospital


A Ukrainian Army colonel, badly wounded while fighting Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, is undergoing rehabilitation at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, near Washington, D.C.

Colonel Ihor Hordiychuk is a rare foreign patient at the world’s largest military hospital – which accepted him after a request from the government in Kyiv.

While the colonel heals and re-learns how to walk, he is already dreaming of returning to Ukraine and continuing to serve his country.

It was a 10-hour plane trip to Washington for the seriously-wounded colonel and his wife Tetiana. But just a day after his arrival at …read more

Source: Voice of America

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