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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Andrew R.C. Marshall

Bloodied but alive after Russian air strike in western Ukraine

An injured serviceman is escorted by medical workers, following an attack on the Yavoriv military base, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at a hospital in Novoyavorivsk, Ukraine, March 13, 2022. REUTERS/Roman Baluk

The Ukrainian colonel's blast-damaged car limped back from the forest where he had just treated soldiers wounded in a Russian missile attack on a military base in the country's far western edge.

Leonid Benzalo, an officer in the Ukrainian medical reserve, told Reuters he was in a dormitory at the vast Yavoriv base, just 15 miles (25 km) from the Polish border, when air raid sirens woke him at 3:20 a.m. (0120 GMT)

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