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Anastasiia Kryvoruchenko

Anastasiia Kryvoruchenko is a reporter at The Counteroffensive.

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Soldiers participate at a rehabilitation center in Kharkiv, Ukraine

The Counteroffensive: An inside look at the virtual reality therapy reshaping veterans' rehabilitation

by Anastasiia Kryvoruchenko
Editor’s Note: This article was published by the twice-weekly newsletter “The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak” on Oct. 17, 2024, and has been re-published by the Kyiv Independent with permission. To subscribe to The Counteroffensive, click here. Last year, Mykola Horishnyi was declared clinically dead – twice. The Ukrainian soldier suffered severe blood loss from an explosion, likely a Russian mine. “Tomorrow will mark exactly one year since I was wounded – at 4:45 p.m. I still can't fully grasp