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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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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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