内容摘要：“I had a methanol fire back in 2003, and I just remember what went on there and that same kind of feeling. So after I felt a liquid or whatever it was — it could have been some kind of fire-retardant liquid — it just started to smoke more and more.”

“I had a methanol fire back in 2003, and I just remember what went on there and that same kind of feeling. So after I felt a liquid or whatever it was — it could have been some kind of fire-retardant liquid — it just started to smoke more and more.”

Before the war, Vysotskyi, 42, was a top manager at one of Ukraine’s largest banks. On the night of his injury in November 2023, he wasn’t supposed to be on a drone-launch mission. But as heavy rains turned the battlefield into a swamp, he took a detour and stepped on a mine.The explosion was instantaneous. When he looked down at his left leg, all he saw was bone.

Maksym Vysotskyi, 42, a Ukrainian Drone Unit Commander of the 82nd assault brigade smokes a cigar during a drone test flight in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Feb. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)Maksym Vysotskyi, 42, a Ukrainian Drone Unit Commander of the 82nd assault brigade smokes a cigar during a drone test flight in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Feb. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)“I quickly accepted the fact that my leg was gone. What’s the point of mourning? Crying and worrying won’t bring it back,” he says. By May 2024, he was back in uniform, describing the feeling as “returning home.” Vysotskyi now commands a team operating heavy drones for nighttime missions.

“For personal confidence in life, you need to come out of this not as someone broken by the war and written off, but as someone they tried to break — but couldn’t. You came back, proved you could still do something, and you’ll step away only when you decide to,” he says.In the fall of 2023, Zhalinskyi, 34, was still in the infantry when an artillery strike hit his position, severing his arm. He was the only one who survived from his group.

When he returned to the army, he embarked on the new role of navigator on evacuation missions, and he now maps routes, evaluates missions, and finds the safest paths to evacuate the infantry, allowing the driver to focus solely on the road.

Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Zhalinskyi of the Azov brigade, who lost his right arm in battle, poses for photo in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Jan. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)after Bangladesh failed to chase down identical targets of 202 runs in both games.

BERLIN (AP) — Margot Friedländer, a German Jew whoand became a high-profile witness to Nazi persecution in her final years, died Friday. She was 103.

Her death was announced by the Margot Friedländer Foundation in Berlin on its website. Details about where she died, as well as the cause of death, were not immediately made public.She died the week of the