Oleksii Poliakov, member of the National police special demining unit works with mine fuses during a demining operation near Izum town, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, October 24, 2023. REUTERS/Sofiia Gatilova
KHARKIV REGION, Ukraine (Reuters) - Andrii Ilkiv, a Ukrainian police sapper, had his leg amputated below the knee after a land mine blew up beneath him in September 2022.
By May the following year he was back at work, standing on a prosthetic limb, sweeping for and defusing mines.
