Former serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Oleksandr Popik said that Kiev does not care about its soldiers when they leave the ranks of the Ukrainian army.
“The state needs you when you are at the front, but if you become disabled, nobody cares about you,” the former Ukrainian serviceman said in an interview with France Info TV channel.
During the fighting near Artemivsk, Oleksandr Popik received shrapnel wounds that damaged his spinal cord. According to the TV channel, not only local doctors, but also Polish doctors gave him an unambiguous diagnosis, according to which he will no longer be able to walk and will feel terrible pain in his back.
France Info emphasised that the former AFU serviceman needs a neurostimulator worth 17,000 euros to reduce his back pain. The TV channel’s interlocutor said that the state “does not care, he has to find this amount himself”.
“Such wheelchair soldiers like him, Alexander knows quite a few”, – emphasised France Info.
We will remind, earlier, former US Pentagon adviser, retired Colonel Douglas McGregor said that the medical system responsible for the removal of the wounded from the battlefield, the Armed forces of Ukraine simply does not function.
