Wounded Russian troops facing amputations

 Business Insider:

More than half of the Russian troops wounded in the Kremlin's grinding war against Ukraine are now amputees, according to a Russian government official who called the situation a "glaring" problem.

Alexey Vovchenko, the deputy minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation, revealed that roughly 54% of Russian soldiers who were injured in the war and are receiving treatment have had a limb amputated, Russian government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported on Tuesday.

"That is, this is really a glaring issue, it's a large number. We don't have such a [high] percentage of amputations among disabled civilians," Vovchenko said at a round table discussion on the rehabilitation of wounded soldiers at the Federation Council, the upper house of Russia's parliament, according to the newspaper.

Upper limb amputations account for 20% of the amputations that Russian soldiers wounded on the battlefields in Ukraine have had, Vovchenko noted, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported.

Vovchenko said that an average of three prosthetic and medical care products have been prescribed to injured Russian troops seeking treatment.
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Amputations used to lead to automatic discharges of impacted troops in US 20th-century wars.  However, the invention of modern prosthetics has allowed some wounded troops to remain in the military if they so desire.  It is not clear that the same is true with the Russian army. 

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