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Since the start of Russia’s largescale invasion last year, more than 20,000 people in Ukraine have lost limbs. AP has a piece on how some of them are coping with psychological trauma through Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
Nervous ahead of their first jiu-jitsu championship, the war veterans gathered in a group to share jokes and help each other tie the belts of their kimonos. Many of them had suffered severe battlefield injuries requiring amputations.
Now they were assembled to perform in the “para jiu jitsu” category at the Ukrainian national competition before hundreds of spectators on amphitheater-style benches in one of Kyiv’s sports complexes.
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