内容摘要：Lobchuk, 42, is a senior mechanic for artillery systems at the 127th Brigade of Ukraine’s armed forces.

Lobchuk, 42, is a senior mechanic for artillery systems at the 127th Brigade of Ukraine’s armed forces.

Serhii Tumanovskyi, a soldier with Ukraine’s 114th territorial defense brigade, installs firmware in a drone near the front line in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)At that moment, Rubliuk’s life hung in the balance. He was transported to a nearby hospital, suffered cardiac arrest and eventually was resuscitated, said Dr. Anton Yakovenko, a military surgeon who treated him.

After months in hospital wards and rehabilitation centers in Philadelphia and Florida, Rubliuk has returned to take on a role near the front line where, like others who have done so, his knowledge and experience are the greatest weapon.Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Zhalinskyi of the Azov brigade, who serves as a navigator for evacuation missions after losing his right arm in battle, holds up a rifle in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Jan. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Zhalinskyi of the Azov brigade, who serves as a navigator for evacuation missions after losing his right arm in battle, holds up a rifle in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Jan. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Andrii Serhieiev, foreground, a Ukrainian soldier with the 53rd brigade who lost a leg in battle, works with another soldier to detonate unexploded ordnance near the front line in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)Andrii Serhieiev, foreground, a Ukrainian soldier with the 53rd brigade who lost a leg in battle, works with another soldier to detonate unexploded ordnance near the front line in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Maksym Vysotskyi had just completed a drone mission in November 2023 when he took a detour after heavy rains turned the battlefield into a swamp and stepped on a land mine.

The explosion was instantaneous. When he looked down at his left leg, all he saw was bone.“People have stopped coming, and when they come, they ask if the immigration officials came here,” said Elisaul Velazco, the owner of a clothing store downtown. “Everything is paralyzed. Sales have dropped by 60%.”

A woman without legal status in the U.S. listens anxiously as Nora Sandigo, who runs a non-profit dedicated to supporting immigrant families, educates undocumented mothers about their legal rights and options to prepare their families in case a parent were to be detained or deported, Jan. 17, 2025, in Florida City, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)A woman without legal status in the U.S. listens anxiously as Nora Sandigo, who runs a non-profit dedicated to supporting immigrant families, educates undocumented mothers about their legal rights and options to prepare their families in case a parent were to be detained or deported, Jan. 17, 2025, in Florida City, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

For years, Sandigo has prepared immigrant parents for the worst-case scenario: being separated from their children.Now she goes to those parents instead of having them come to her.