The most incredible survival story you'll read today: How Ukrainian fighter had to chop off his own LEG before becoming first man ever airlifted off a battlefield by drone...having spent 70 straight weeks stranded and injured in the killzone
Daily Mail - Oct 21, 2026
Ukrainian infantryman Kostiantyn Vlasenko endured 491 days in the killzone, hiding in a cramped concrete pipeline and later in a cast iron furnace before he was evacuated by drone.