As Ukraine's war with Russia grinds into its fourth year, the country is contending with a staggering toll of wounded soldiers and civilians — and an emerging generation of amputees reshaping what survival looks like in a nation under siege.

A new documentary highlighting the country's wounded veterans screened this week at the French ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C. The film, "Second Wind," follows four amputee soldiers and a female sniper, all severely wounded in combat, as they climb Mount Kilimanjaro — an account of grit and perseverance that comes amid one of the largest waves of war-related amputations in modern European history, and that mirrors the country's struggle to rise out of conflict.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that around 380,000 Ukrainian

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