. “I eat in Myanmar and sleep in India,” says Tonyei Phawang, the Angh, whose house sits on the border.
She stayed by his side, traveling from hospital to hospital as he recovered and learned to live with a full-arm amputation.When he decided to return to the military, she wasn’t surprised. “I never doubted for a moment that it could be any different,” she says.
Before his injury, Puzikov, now 40, was a combat medic. After returning to service, he retrained as a psychologist, helping soldiers cope with the mental toll of three years of war.Capt. Oleksandr Puzikov, who lost an arm in combat, speaks with fellow soldiers in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)Capt. Oleksandr Puzikov, who lost an arm in combat, speaks with fellow soldiers in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
“As long as the war continues, I won’t leave — I’ll help in any way I can,” he says.Yet, his own struggle continues. He suffers from phantom limb pain. It feels as if his missing hand is clenched in a fist, the pain so sharp it cuts like a knife. He hopes another surgery might finally relieve it.
A proper prosthetic remains out of reach due to bureaucratic delays and poor-quality options. Like many other amputees struggling to find a good arm prosthesis, he continues his military duties without one.
Oleksandr Puzikov, a captain with Ukraine’s 127th brigade who lost an arm in a Russian mortar attack, trains at a gym in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)All told, the S&P 500 rose 5.22 points to 5,963.60. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 137.33 to 42,792.07, and the Nasdaq composite rose 4.36 to 19,215.46.
In stock markets abroad, indexes were mixed amid mostly modest movements across Europe and Asia.Indexes were close to flat in both Shanghai and Hong Kong after the Chinese government said
rose less in April than expected. Growth in industrial output slowed to 6.1% year-on-year from 7.7% in March.In the foreign currency markets, the value of the U.S. dollar fell against everything from the euro to the Australian dollar.