Editor’s note: This story includes images and descriptions of war injuries that some readers might find disturbing.
Everything was dark and little made sense when Andrii Smolenskyi finally regained consciousness.
“The whole mission was just a dream,” he thought to himself as he lay in bed. “Why’s it so dark?”
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