The war between Russia and Ukraine has left a new episode that the Ukrainian authorities have not hesitated to describe as “miraculous“. This is an operation to which a 28-year-old soldier has been subjected through which they have removed a active grenade which was lodged in his chest. The military surgical team that performed the surgery have described it as “successful“.
The General Surgeon Andriy Verba, de Vinnytsia, with the only help of two soldiers, was in charge of executing the operation applying a risky and innovative technique, because “the grenade could detonate at any time“, reported the Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Hanna Maliar.
So, hea surgery took place without using electrocoagulation, which is usual to control the bleeding of such complicated operations. Also, the pomegranate was just below the heart, a particularly sensitive area. The method used consisted in the application of heat to cauterize the blood vessels and stop the proliferation of blood.
The x-ray shows the grenade lodged in the chest of the Ukrainian soldier.
Once the extraction is complete, the military team of detonation experts neutralized ammunition. “The unexploded part of the grenade was removed from under the heart. The grenade did not explode, but continued to be explosive“said Anton Gerashchenko, Ukrainian internal affairs minister adviser.
“The procedure will be included in medical manuals. Such operations had never been performed in the practice of our physicians. Something similar to what happened during the war in Afghanistan. About the patient, I can only say that he was born in 1994, his condition is stable, and now he has been sent to rehabilitation. This case will go down in medical history.“, continued Gerashchenko.
Major General Andriy Verba was photographed holding a grenade that he had removed from the Ukrainian soldier’s chest.
Attacks in Soledar
The Ukrainian authorities believe that the grenade had been fired from a grenade launcher mounted under the barrel of an automatic rifle. The event would have occurred during the intense military offensive that Russia has carried out in recent days in the mining city of solder, located just 10 kilometers from Bakhmut.
The group of mercenaries Wagner is applying all kinds of war strategies on the front to control the town: from dress up as ukrainian soldiers to shoot treacherously The Kremlin has reported that the Ukrainian resistance is reduced to several hundred soldiers who reside in the center of the city.
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“Units of the airborne forces have blocked Soledar from the north and south. The air forces attack enemy fortificationss and assault units are fighting in the city,” Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Lieutenant General Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov.
Volodimir ZelenskyFor his part, in his evening speech this Wednesday, he warned of the difficult situation in Soledar: “Everything is destroyed. Not a single wall left standing. There is no life. The land is covered with the corpses of the occupants and the scars left by the explosions. It is the image of madness”.
Images of soldiers from the Wagner Group in the tunnels of the Soledar salt mines.
