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'The impossible': Ukraine's secret, deadly rescue missions

"Buffalo," the name he uses as a soldier, lies on a bed at a clinic in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, June 17, 2022. A series of clandestine, against-the-odds, high-speed helicopter missions to reach the Azovstal defenders in March and April — some of them ending in death — are being celebrated in Ukraine as one of the riskiest, most heroic feats of military derring-do of the four-month war. Buffalo owes them his life — the life he had hoped would end quickly, to end his torment, after exploding 120mm mortar rounds tore apart his left leg, bloodied his right foot, and peppered his back with shrapnel during street fighting in Mariupol. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
"Buffalo," the name he uses as a soldier, lies on a bed at a clinic in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, June 17, 2022. A series of clandestine, against-the-odds, high-speed helicopter missions to reach the Azovstal defenders in March and April — some of them ending in death — are being celebrated in Ukraine as one of the riskiest, most heroic feats of military derring-do of the four-month war. Buffalo owes them his life — the life he had hoped would end quickly, to end his torment, after exploding 120mm mortar rounds tore apart his left leg, bloodied his right foot, and peppered his back with shrapnel during street fighting in Mariupol. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

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