“The right leg is still there, thank God!” : the day when Vadim, a soldier in the Donbass, jumped on a mine

In 2014, during battles against pro-Russian separatists in the Donbass, Vadim was injured behind the thigh by shrapnel. He had come out of it, at the time, with a scar. “This time I was less lucky. But I don’t regret having fought, it was my choice, I was aware of the risks, ”he says, lying on the bed of a hospital in Dnipro, a large city in central Ukraine. The windows of the establishment are protected from gunfire by sandbags. At the entrance, a guard armed with a Kalashnikov.