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"Losing an eye, an arm or a leg is a small death". The story of

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Losing an eye, an arm or a leg is a small death. The story of

“The worst thing is that sometimes I want to cry, but I can't. These are some protective mechanisms of the body. For the first and last time after the injury, I cried when the daughter of volunteer Roman Sinitsyn asked him to give me a message: ‘Tell Masi to not be sad. I will draw him a new eye’. We spent some time together, and I remember how she used to play with my eyes as if she tried to gouge them out, and we laughed a lot together”, - Masi Nayyem, a lawyer and a serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, says. On June 5, Masi received a serious head injury at the front, as a result of which he lost his right eye. Our journalist Mariana Petsukh asked to visit him to talk about what hinders him after the injury and what helps him to live fully. On February 23, 2022, after the announcement of the call-up of the operational reserve, Masi Nayyem went to the military registration and enlistment office. He was in this reserve because in 2015-2016 he served at the front. After the full-scale invasion, he stayed in Kyiv until April. Then he went to the east as a scout. In early June, the car in which Masi was riding, hit several mines. One of his comrades-in-arms died on the spot, the other is still in hospital with a very complex spinal cord injury. Masi received a facial injury.
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