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A doctor talks to Vitalii Shumei, 36, a bedridden Ukrainian officer heavily wounded in a battle with Russian forces , at the rehabilitation centre in Modrychi, Western Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

A doctor talks to Vitalii Shumei, 36, a bedridden Ukrainian officer heavily wounded in a battle with Russian forces , at the rehabilitation centre in Modrychi, Western Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Serhii Shumei, 65, and his son Vitalii, 36, a Ukrainian officer heavily wounded in a battle with Russian forces, sing at the rehabilitation centre in Modrychi, Western Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Serhii Shumei, 65, and his son Vitalii, 36, a Ukrainian officer heavily wounded in a battle with Russian forces, sing at the rehabilitation centre in Modrychi, Western Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Volunteer Iryna Tymofeyeva talks to Vitalii Shumei, 36, a Ukrainian officer heavily wounded in a battle with Russian forces, at the rehabilitation center in Modrychi, Western Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Volunteer Iryna Tymofeyeva talks to Vitalii Shumei, 36, a Ukrainian officer heavily wounded in a battle with Russian forces, at the rehabilitation center in Modrychi, Western Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

FILE - Serhii Shumei talks to his son Vitalii, a Ukrainian officer heavily wounded in a battle with Russian forces, in a city hospital in Chernihiv, Ukraine, on Jan. 11, 2023. Vitalii, a long-range anti-aircraft missile commander, was wounded in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine that has become synonymous with horrific losses in ongoing fighting for both Ukraine and Russia. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

FILE - Serhii Shumei talks to his son Vitalii, a Ukrainian officer heavily wounded in a battle with Russian forces, in a city hospital in Chernihiv, Ukraine, on Jan. 11, 2023. Vitalii, a long-range anti-aircraft missile commander, was wounded in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine that has become synonymous with horrific losses in ongoing fighting for both Ukraine and Russia. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Serhii Shumei, 65, talks to his son Vitalii, 36, a Ukrainian officer heavily wounded in a battle with Russian forces, at the rehabilitation centre in Modrychi, Western Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Serhii Shumei, 65, talks to his son Vitalii, 36, a Ukrainian officer heavily wounded in a battle with Russian forces, at the rehabilitation centre in Modrychi, Western Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Serhii Shumei, 65, plays harmonica to his son Vitalii, 36, a Ukrainian officer heavily wounded in a battle with Russian forces, at the rehabilitation centre in Modrychi, Western Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Serhii Shumei, 65, plays harmonica to his son Vitalii, 36, a Ukrainian officer heavily wounded in a battle with Russian forces, at the rehabilitation centre in Modrychi, Western Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

A doctor works with Vitalii Shumei, 36, a Ukrainian officer heavily wounded in a battle with Russian forces , at the rehabilitation centre in Modrychi, Western Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

A doctor works with Vitalii Shumei, 36, a Ukrainian officer heavily wounded in a battle with Russian forces , at the rehabilitation centre in Modrychi, Western Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Serhii Shumei, 65, talks to his son Vitalii, 36, a Ukrainian officer heavily wounded in a battle with Russian forces, at the rehabilitation centre in Modrychi, Western Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Serhii Shumei, 65, talks to his son Vitalii, 36, a Ukrainian officer heavily wounded in a battle with Russian forces, at the rehabilitation centre in Modrychi, Western Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)