A wounded soldier sits in a stabilisation point near the Kurakhove frontline. The soldier administered first aid to himself and was unable to leave his position for two days with a wound to his jaw.

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Ukrainian service members attend military exercises during drills at a training ground in Chernihiv region, Ukraine. REUTERS/Maksym Kishka

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A serviceman of the 24th Mechanized brigade named after King Danylo of the Ukrainian Armed Forces rests in a dugout at his frontline position, near the town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region, Ukraine. Oleg Petrasiuk/Ukrainian Armed Forces

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A serviceman of the 24th Mechanized brigade plays piano in a damaged building in the frontline town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region, Ukraine, June 25, 2024. Oleg Petrasiuk/Ukrainian Armed Forces

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A Ukrainian serviceman from an anti-drone mobile air defense unit sits near a ZU-23-2 anti aircraft cannon as he waits for Russian kamikaze drones, in Kherson region, Ukraine, June 11, 2024. REUTERS/Ivan Antypenko

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Ukrainian serviceman says goodbye to his wife who was visiting him during a short break from his frontline duty, at the train station in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, February 14, 2024. REUTERS/Inna Varenytsia

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A woman reacts as she visits at a makeshift memorial place with Ukrainian flags with the names of fallen service members at the Independence Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, September 26, 2023. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

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Ukrainian servicemen rest at their positions after a fight near the front line city of Bakhmut, in Donetsk region, Ukraine, May 11, 2023. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty/Serhii Nuzhnenko

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Ukrainian serviceman Volodymyr proposes to his girlfriend Viktoriia after she came to visit him, at the train station in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, March 15, 2023. REUTERS/Yan Dorbronosov

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A Ukrainian serviceman takes cover as an air-raid siren sounds during a Russian drone strike, which local authorities consider to be Iranian-made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) Shahed-136, in Kyiv, Ukraine, October 17, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

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A Ukrainian service member with a dog observes in the industrial area of the city of Sievierodonetsk, June 20, 2022. REUTERS/Oleksandr Ratushniak

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A Ukrainian serviceman looks on from inside a tank at a position in Donetsk region, Ukraine, June 11, 2022. REUTERS/Stringer

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A woman reacts as she says goodbye to her serviceman husband before he leaves to the frontline in Uzhhorod, Ukraine, April 26, 2022. REUTERS/Serhii Hudak

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