A wounded Ukraine solider but eager to go back to fight

A wounded Ukraine solider but eager to go back to fight

Yuri has lost his foot, but not his will to fight.

Qazet.az reports that he narrowly survived a shell blast. His sergeant major was killed on the spot.

Yuri managed to warn his brothers-in-arms to take cover, but did not make it himself. He was 10 metres away from shelter when the rocket hit.

"I was at the very epicentre of that strike," he tells me from his hospital bed in Dnipro, four hours from the frontline in the Donbas region in the east of Ukraine.

"If it was up to me, I would stand up right now and go fight. I am really upset that my guys are fighting there, and I am just lying here, unable to help," he says.