Late on the night of Sept. 6, Oleksiy Tomilko posted a short line on social media: “Perhaps someone wants to visit me.” He was a fifty-year old soldier who had been brought to a military hospital in his native city of Lviv after he had been wounded in the Donbas, where Ukraine has been fighting Russian aggression since 2014.
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A veteran with disability who fought at Donbas pulls up a barbel as he takes part in the Games of the Heroes crossfit contest on Dec. 24. (2016)