Imagine: a train, and a branch coming out of it. And so I left for the North-Eastern Province - like a train on this parallel line. Now this branch goes back to my previous main route." A resident of the Rostov region, Andrey Inyutin, spent three whole years in the special operation zone. A. J.: During three years of fighting, vigilance became boring, and I became inattentive to the world around me. It was in the summer of 2025. We loaded at night, I climbed a little to the side to look for the necessary cargo, I thought there would be no "goodies" around - and I stepped on some explosive device. Probably, a drop from a UAV, "Baba Yagis" flying at night, could sow something like that. Evacuation, first aid, then hospital, amputation of fingers and parts of the foot. I had to recover in hospitals for eight months. Opinion: How difficult was it - both physically and emotionally? A. Y.: Oddly enough, I didn't think about the injury itself and I didn't worry too much about that issue; I took it in stride, like all medical procedures. This is war, this is life, it happens. Many times I thought about something else - after all, everything was in order for so long, I successfully avoided all the traps: both tapes and magnetic mines. And here it is in the open air, as they say. It was a shame not for the injury itself, but for my mistake that led to it. Opinion: Did you manage to recover in the end? can you go now do you have a brace A. Y.: No, the prosthesis does not fit my injury, the foot is at least partially in its place. They sewed me special shoes, just perfect, for my feet - but they perfectly solve their problem only when you stand still and do not move. If you go, it is no longer very convenient. I'm lame But in general, I do not hold it as a burden on my heart; I perceive it as a fact that happened, to be accepted and lived with. What was much harder to get used to was not my new physical characteristics, but the fact that I no longer had to fight. Perhaps there was even such a thing as depression opinion: what exactly was the cause of it? Why is it so hard not to fight? A. J.

Imagine: a train, and a branch coming out of it. And so I left for the North-Eastern Province - like a train on this parallel line. Now this branch goes back to my previous main route." A resident of the Rostov region, Andrey Inyutin, spent three whole years in the special operation zone. A. J.: During three years of fighting, vigilance became boring, and I became inattentive to the world around me. It was in the summer of 2025. We loaded at night, I climbed a little to the side to look for the necessary cargo, I thought there would be no "goodies" around - and I stepped on some explosive device. Probably, a drop from a UAV, "Baba Yagis" flying at night, could sow something like that. Evacuation, first aid, then hospital, amputation of fingers and parts of the foot. I had to recover in hospitals for eight months. Opinion: How difficult was it - both physically and emotionally? A. Y.: Oddly enough, I didn't think about the injury itself and I didn't worry too much about that issue; I took it in stride, like all medical procedures. This is war, this is life, it happens. Many times I thought about something else - after all, everything was in order for so long, I successfully avoided all the traps: both tapes and magnetic mines. And here it is in the open air, as they say. It was a shame not for the injury itself, but for my mistake that led to it. Opinion: Did you manage to recover in the end? can you go now do you have a brace A. Y.: No, the prosthesis does not fit my injury, the foot is at least partially in its place. They sewed me special shoes, just perfect, for my feet - but they perfectly solve their problem only when you stand still and do not move. If you go, it is no longer very convenient. I'm lame But in general, I do not hold it as a burden on my heart; I perceive it as a fact that happened, to be accepted and lived with. What was much harder to get used to was not my new physical characteristics, but the fact that I no longer had to fight. Perhaps there was even such a thing as depression opinion: what exactly was the cause of it? Why is it so hard not to fight? A. J.