When he returned to the army, he embarked on the new role of navigator on evacuation missions, and he now maps routes, evaluates missions, and finds the safest paths to evacuate the infantry, allowing the driver to focus solely on the road.
He lost his right leg after a sniper shot at him in February 2015 when Russia first started its armed aggression in eastern Ukraine.
Many Ukrainian brigades have at least one, often several, amputee soldiers still on active duty, who chose to return to combat driven by the sense of responsibility amid the grim outlook for their country.
But it's precisely this dire situation that has driven wounded soldiers back to the front, where little has changed since they first left their civilian lives years ago to defend their families from an invading neighbor.
Tumanovskyi, 43, serves in the 114th Brigade of Ukraine’s armed forces, where he assembles drones and prepares them for soldiers to launch.
