After Russian drones dropped a mortar round and then a grenade on an American volunteer fighting for Ukraine, the former U.S. Marine thought he might lose use of his fingers.
Shrapnel hit the right leg and arm of the 28-year-old soldier, who asked to be identified by his call-sign "Jumbo." He needed hand surgery and Ukraine's overstretched medical system had only a bed in a cancer hospital available.
"I didn't have a purpose before and this kind of gave me one again," said Jumbo, who joined the Ukrainian Army in February after feeling directionless once he left the Marines in 2021. He was wounded with 26 other volunteers in a July operation in southeast Ukraine. Two died.Treating the wounded volunteers at Landstuhl represents another level of U.S. commitment to Ukraine.
Dozens of foreign volunteers are wounded each month, according to the four fighters interviewed by Reuters. Of 20 Ukrainian Army patients admitted so far, nearly all since August, 16 have been foreign volunteers, according to Marcy Sanchez, a spokesman for the hospital.
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