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A fighter’s first steps to recovery

When a drone hit Ukrainian forces in Zaporizhzhia, Mackenzie Hughes of Calgary was stuck in a van on fire. Now, he hopes to get back on the battlefield Janice Dickson International Affairs Reporter Photography by Olga Ivashchenko Toronto The Globe and Mail Published 29 seconds ago

Mackenzie Hughes, a 23-year-old from Calgary, was serving in southern Ukraine when the Russian military attacked his position with a Shahed drone, causing a van to pin him down and catch on fire.

From a hospital in Kyiv, about two months later, he recalled the tale of how he was stuck under the van as flames worked their way up his legs and how, fortunately, one of his comrades saved him. Doctors estimate that 28 per cent of his body is covered in b

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