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Upward of 20,000 Ukrainian amputees face trauma on a scale unseen since WWI (mainichi.jp)

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LVIV, Ukraine (AP) -- The small band of soldiers gather outside to share cigarettes and war stories, sometimes casually and sometimes with a degree of

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[-] tim_0475@feddit.de 22 points 1 year ago

What exactly is the statement you are talking about? The title? I read it as "there haven't been this many amputees in a country since ww1 and this is what they are going through"

[-] slice1@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Even this is hard to believe given many other wars happened in between. E.g., the genocide in Rwanda (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0007720)

[-] tim_0475@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Good point, but here's what the article says "Europe has experienced nothing like it since World War I, and the United States not since the Civil War."

[-] slice1@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

So the title is misleading clickbait that is posted for engagement and misinformation/propaganda?

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