FILE PHOTO: Former Ukrainian serviceman Yevhenii Korinets and a fellow member of the sitting volleyball Paralympic Team stretch after training at a gym in Reshetylivka, Ukraine August 7, 2024. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File photo
PARIS (Reuters) - Yevhenii Korinets is an adrenaline-fuelled man on a mission. Even if Ukraine are out of medal contention in sitting volleyball at the Paralympics, the war amputee is in Paris to deliver a message - his country will not stop fighting, on and off the battlefield.
Korinets joined the army as a paramedic when Russia's full-scale invasion started in 2022. The former physiotherapist became one of thousands left with life-altering injuries when he was wounded in a fierce battle near the eastern city of Bakhmut in March last year and had his left leg amputated at the hip.
