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from the army and sent back to his former life as a veterinarian in the Far East.But amid the elation of being reunited with his wife and
military does run mental health programs, Ukraine war veterans who spoke to The Moscow Times said that they had not been offered any
TASSThe most common form of psychological scarring is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a condition characterized by anxiety, panic
service for soldiers mean that only those who have been injured, or those with special dispensations, have so far been discharged from the
in the central Russian city of Kostroma with a flare gun
the horror of what soldiers witness, the fighting in Ukraine has been on a scale not seen in Europe since 1945, with large battles involving
the 34-year-old said he was tasked with everything from treating wounds to preparing injured soldiers for transportation and moving decaying
Central Military Clinical Hospital in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region
Vyacheslav Prokofyev / TASS While Russian military personnel who participate in combat operations are entitled to up to 30 days of medical
and psychological rehabilitation after demobilization, discharged soldiers who spoke to The Moscow Times said they had received little in
Russian Armed Forces, with the veterans of wars in Afghanistan and Chechnya more likely to commit suicide or be involved in violent