内容摘要：In Kyiv, residents expressed a mixture of hope and despondency at the latest peace efforts.

In Kyiv, residents expressed a mixture of hope and despondency at the latest peace efforts.

“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)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)

“At first, I did not like this job. When I returned to service, I was ready to go back to the infantry,” he says. “But over time, I accepted this new role.”Serhieiev, 59, is from the Donetsk region, and that’s the area where he currently serves as a soldier of the 53rd Brigade, which plants and extracts mines.

He was demining an area in the southern Mykolaiv region when he himself stepped on one and lost his leg in January of 2023. Less than six months after the injury, he returned to the military.

Andrii Serhieiev, a Ukrainian soldier with the 53rd brigade who lost a leg in battle, stands in front of a destroyed Russian armoured vehicle near the frontline in the Lyman direction, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)That’s only 7 degrees (4 Celsius) away from catastrophe in the form of heatstroke, said Ollie Jay, a professor of heat and health at the University of Sydney in Australia, where he runs the thermoergonomics laboratory.

Dr. Neil Gandhi, emergency medicine director at Houston Methodist Hospital, said during heat waves anyone who comes in with a fever of 102 or higher and no clear source of infection will be looked at for heat exhaustion or the more severe heatstroke.“We routinely will see core temperatures greater than 104, 105 degrees during some of the heat episodes,” Gandhi said. Another degree or three and such a patient is at high risk of death, he said.

An elderly woman suffering from heat related ailment is brought to an overcrowded government district hospital in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh state, India, June 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)An elderly woman suffering from heat related ailment is brought to an overcrowded government district hospital in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh state, India, June 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)