hromadske reporter Maryana Pietsukh met with 29-year-old National Guard soldier Vitaly Veres to hear what we should know about the problems of blind veterans.
In February 2023, Veres was seriously injured in Bakhmut. He has already undergone more than ten operations. The latter are on his ears, since he lost his eardrums and partially his hearing from the explosion of an anti-tank missile.
Ahead of him is a skin transplant, prosthetics of the right eye and surgery on a broken collarbone. But the man's greatest dream is to restore his sight with the help of the latest technologies.
Although back in February, his relatives could only dream that Vitaliy would simply survive. For two weeks, he was in the intensive care unit in critical condition. When he regained consciousness, he was very panicked - his hands and feet were tied, his eyes were bandaged and his mouth was sewn shut. He thought he was in captivity.
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