Senior officials in Kyiv have reported that a successful surgery was performed on a Ukrainian soldier to remove an unexploded grenade from his chest.
According to Hanna Maliar, Ukraine's deputy minister of defense, surgeons extracted the weapon from the injured serviceman's chest right below the heart.
Then Surgery Can Only Be Described As A Miracle
Interesting Engineering writes that two sappers stayed on duty throughout the procedure to watch that everything went according to plan and that the grenade did not go off.
According to Maliar in her post, military surgeons performed an operation to extract a VOG grenade from the soldier's body, which, fortunately, did not break.
Andrew Willow, one of the most skilled surgeons in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, performed the procedure without using electrocoagulation because the grenade could explode at any moment.
Despite this, the surgical procedure was successful, and the injured serviceman was transported for further healing and rehabilitation.
The team of sappers neutralized the munition, according to Anton Gerashchenko, the ministerial adviser for internal affairs of Ukraine, in an epic medical feat, The Guardian notes.
In addition, he cited Yevgenia Slivko, the communications advisor to the commander of the medical forces in the Ukrainian military, who stated that the patient was thought to be around 28 years old.
Since an identical surgery was carried out during the Afghanistan War, such surgeries have never been performed in a medical setting, according to Gerashchenko.
A brief internet search will reveal that there have been no previous surgeries of this kind, making the treatment truly unique.
While most medical advances are the result of technological improvements, in this case everything depends on the skill and knowledge of the surgeons and sappers.
It is possible to draw the conclusion that the surgery was carried out using the same standard tools utilized by surgeons worldwide.
This is because no mention of any unique equipment or technology has been made to far abou the surgery that has taken place, Interesting Engineering claims.
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The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine Has Been Going On For Almost A Year Now
It is important to note that more incidents of the same kind might be reported if the war between Russia and Ukraine continues to wage on.
It can also be remembered that nearly 11 months have passed since Russia's invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022.
One of the heaviest engagements of the Russian invasion is currently taking place in eastern Ukraine, where Russian soldiers are concentrating their efforts on bombing the mining town of Soledar.
Even if it is unlikely that Soledar's collapse will mark a turning point in the grueling war of attrition, it would nevertheless be a victory for a Kremlin that has recently been devoid of positive battlefield news.
Additionally, it would give Russian soldiers a starting point for capturing other, still-Ukrainian-held regions of the Donetsk province, Global News reports.
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