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MOUNT ATHOS, Greece –
The Ukrainian troopers arrived in Greece with marks of battle — one with a head scar, one other with each legs amputated above the knee, some with invisible psychological wounds from a three-year battle that has ravaged their homeland.
The Ukrainian troopers arrived in Greece with marks of battle — one with a head scar, one other with each legs amputated above the knee, some with invisible psychological wounds from a three-year battle that has ravaged their homeland.
The males, 22 in all, had taken a bus greater than 1,000 kilometers from the Ukrainian metropolis of Lviv to a monastery constructed on a cliff on the mountainous Athos peninsula in northern Greece, the place they hoped to flee haunting reminiscences of the battlefield.
In their four-day keep, a part of a psychological assist program organized by Ukrainian authorities, the troopers made a pilgrimage to some dozen monasteries on the slopes of Mount Athos, a non secular heart for the reason that tenth century.
