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Stanislav Aseyev, a Ukrainian writer, journalist, and activist who has joined Ukraine’s Armed Forces, suffered shrapnel wounds to his neck, chest, and ear, he said on July 2. This is Aseyev’s second injury in recent months. In May, he suffered a concussion in combat in Donetsk Oblast. “A miracle happened to me again. This piece of shrapnel entered my neck, missed the artery, and got stuck in soft tissue,” Aseyev wrote on X. “And a fragment that got into my chest did not penetrate the lung. Another one was pulled out of my ear,” the writer-turned-soldier said, adding that he was doing “fine.” A…

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