we ll get them eventually. it will take some time to recover those. to dmytro. to courtney kube who is standing by for us in brussels. let me ask you in general, we re not getting much new. give me a sense of how much of a conundrum this placed on not only the biden administration, but those two officials we re listening to, the top officials in the dod. reporter: that s right. so remember these are two people inside the room when they re doing the making the having the discussion about what to do. so, back to the very first one of these objects, this high surveillance chinese spy balloon, they were in the room with the on the phone with the head of north com, norad, the general, and ultimately and other members of the joint staff and senior dod officials, and they made the decision not to shoot that first one down initially because of the concern of people on the ground. only to come back several days
basic necessities. now, dmytro was a dj before the war, now he is pretty close to the front lines helping people. and i asked him a question that i ve asked a lot of folks as we near the one year anniversary. how have you changed over this year of war? take a listen to what he had to say. we don t have time for depression and we don t have time for some sad feelings. we feel the unity now. it is a feeling that i really can t describe, how it feels. much more people standing together, doing something really important, to help people to help our army. and, yasmin, so many of the people that i ve asked that question to have a given a similar answer. that this year has taken so much from people in ukraine, it has cost so much, but that a lot of people have also found something both inside
putting their lives on the line to defend their country. my friend erin gilchrist brings us the story of a mission here at home to help some of those who have suffered catastrophic injuries in the war. watch this. blast by blast, russia s war in ukraine has exhausted a devastating toll on both civilians, and soldiers. for these three ukrainian soldiers, the impact has been life-changing, missing an, alexander has left, leg and dmytro missing his right like right up to the hip. making it his mission to get couldn t get back home in a war zone. they didn t have the technology available, or the know how to treat those type of injuries, they were told their lives were gonna be on crutches, or in wheelchairs. he believes upwards of 5000
seven soldier amputees, already committing more than half 1 million dollars towards donating state-of-the-art limbs. utilizing that prosthesis to daily function, feeding, yourself stuff we take for granted, it becomes exponentially harder. quickly picking up how to use his muscles to get his new arm to lift, and his new hand to grab. all extended flexing his knee, moving without a cane or crutches. the first time the 34-year-old has done that and a half a year. he is very excited, and full of emotion, and he really he has his the most complex slim, going to dmytro, a motorized full like. start off with the left. like a little trickier to master, but within minutes, smiling he says, because it is more than he expected. demi short was a sniper in the ukrainian army, and he makes one thing clear, no translator
soldiers have lost limbs to blast injuries since the war started. so far, he and his team at the medical center or thought dixon prosthetics that worked with a seven soldier amputees, already committing more than half 1 million dollars towards donating state-of-the-art limbs. utilizing that prosthesis to daily function, feeding, yourself stuff we take for granted, it becomes exponentially harder. quickly picking up how to use his muscles to get his new arm to lift, and his new hand to grab. all extended flexing his knee, moving without a cane or crutches. the first time the 34-year-old has done that and a half a year. he is very excited, and full of emotion, and he really he has his the most complex slim, going to dmytro, a motorized full like. start off with the left. like a little trickier to master, but within minutes, smiling he says, because it is more than he expected. demi short was a sniper in the ukrainian army, and he makes one thing clear, no translator nee