Doctors help “Buffalo,” his nom de guerre, train with his new prosthetic limb at a clinic in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 17, 2022. Buffalo, a 20-year-old junior sergeant whose leg was shredded by mortar rounds, is among the wounded evacuated in daring helicopter missions during the last-ditch defense of the Azovstal steel complex in Mariupol.
A junior sergeant, heon the trail of a Russian tank, aiming to destroy it with his shoulder-launched, armor-piercing NLAW missile on the last day of the invasion’s first month
A fight-crew member took his hand and told him not to worry, they'd make it home."I told him, 'All my life, I dreamed of flying a helicopter. It doesn't matter if we arrive — my dream has come true,'" Buffalo recalled. (AP Photo / Natacha Pisarenko)