They are the ones Russia couldn’t kill. Ukrainian soldiers who were on the brink of death after losing limbs to Russia’s invading army are now back on the frontlines, equipped with new prosthetics and the determination to protect their country.

All Andrii Rubliuk remembers is overwhelming cold, darkness and fear. When the intelligence soldier regained consciousness excruciating pain engulfed him.

Battered by casualties after three years of war, Ukraine’s military has been struggling to replenish its ranks. The dead can never return to the front. Nor will many of the near