ZAPORIZHIA, Ukraine—The last time Marina Kasyanenko saw her son, Daniel, she begged him not to return to war.
“It was hard for him,” she later says of her son, a 19-year-old Ukrainian soldier. “I didn’t want him to go to war. But he was determined—he had to be the one to go.”
It was July 2015, and Daniel had gone home to his parents’ apartment in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia on convalescent leave. A mortar blast in a battlefield trench in eastern Ukraine had left him with a severe head injury—a “head contusion,” as the army doctors called it.
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Source: The Daily Signal
