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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Henry Belot

‘I stood on a mine’: government urged to repatriate Australian seriously injured fighting in Ukraine war

The man described his frontline experience in a statement shared by a Ukrainian/Australian man supporting him in hospital
The man described his war frontline experience in a statement shared by a Ukrainian/Australian man supporting him in hospital. Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images

The federal government has been urged to evacuate an Australian citizen who was seriously injured after stepping on a landmine while fighting for Ukraine on the country’s far eastern front.

Friends of the 38-year-old foreign fighter, who is being treated in a Ukrainian hospital, warn he needs urgent specialist treatment to avoid losing limbs and are lobbying Australian diplomats to intervene in his case.

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