Doctors removed an unexploded grenade from the chest of a Ukrainian soldierreports the BBC.
Pictures on the Facebook page of the Medical Service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine show an X-ray of the explosive near the serviceman’s heart and another of the surgeon holding the bloodied grenade.
Two sappers helped oversee the operation to ensure it was carried out safely.
The wounded soldier is now recovering.
The surgical intervention was performed without the use of electrocoagulation – a common method in which an electric current is used to control bleeding during surgery – because “the explosive can detonate at any time”.
It’s a grenade VOG – 4-centimeter ammunition for a grenade launcherwhich can travel about 400 m and is designed to explode just above the ground.
The operation was carried out by Major General Andrii Verba, described as “one of the most experienced surgeons” of the armed forces of Ukraine.
It is not known when the intervention took place or in which part of the front the soldier was wounded.
Almost 11 months after Russian forces invaded Ukraine, fighting in the east of the country continues.
