new video loaded: War Shattered His Face. Technology Helped Reconstruct It.
By Marc Santora, Nikolay Nikolov, Daria Mitiuk and Laetitia Vançon•
Volodymyr is a Ukrainian marksman whose face was shattered by a Russian bomb in 2023. After multiple surgeries and titanium implants, he has returned to active duty near the closest point of the front line of the war with Russia. Calling in from there, he describes his recovery to Marc Santora, an international editor for The New York Times.
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