一名乌克兰士兵表示，他在独自被困、重伤八个月后，被迫用刀锯断了自己的小腿——此前他的另一只脚已因冻伤脱落。
A Ukrainian soldier said he was forced to cut off his own lower leg with a knife while he was trapped alone and badly injured for eight months — after already losing his other foot, which fell off due to frostbite.
49岁的康斯坦丁·弗拉先科在接受乌克兰媒体《审查报》采访时回忆了这段惨烈的求生经历，采访在他本月早些时候终于获救后不久进行，当时一架六旋翼无人机在俄军猛烈火力下将他吊离险境。
Konstantin Vlasenko, 49, recalled his gruesome survival tactics in an interview with Ukrainian outlet Censor soon after he was finally rescued earlier this month by a hexacopter drone that lifted him to safety under heavy Russian fire.
弗拉先科服役于乌克兰第30独立机械化旅，自去年6月起被困在哈尔科夫州东部城市库皮扬斯克附近，最初与一名叫巴斯基的战友在一起。
Vlasenko, who served with Ukraine’s 30th Separate Mechanized Brigade, had been pinned near Kup’yansk, a city in eastern Kharkiv, since June last year, initially with a fellow soldier named Baski.
但他后来独自一人，因为2月16日一架俄罗斯无人机发现了躲在一所废弃学校里的他们，重创了弗拉先科的腿部并击毙了他的战友，他表示。
But he ended up alone when a Russian drone found them hiding in a ruined school on Feb. 16, seriously injuring Vlasenko’s leg and killing his colleague, he said.
“我没能救他，他在50岁生日那天去世了，”弗拉先科谈到巴斯基时说。
“I didn’t save him, and he died on his 50th birthday,” Vlasenko said. of Baski.
虽然重伤但仍活着，弗拉先科说他设法爬进一个旧铸铁炉躲避俄军过于猛烈、无法突围的攻击。
Seriously injured but alive, Vlasenko said he was able to crawl into an old cast-iron furnace to hide from Russian attacks that were too heavy to escape.
尽管乌克兰部队最初无法抵达并营救他，但他们通过无人机投放食物、水和医疗用品维持了他的生命。一度他妻子甚至设法让一本斯蒂芬·金的小说随生存包一起被投下。
Although Ukrainian forces were unable to initially reach and rescue him, they were able to keep him alive by dropping food, water and medical supplies from drones. At one point, his wife even managed to get a Stephen King novel dropped in a survival package.
然而，弗拉先科的左脚因冻伤严重腐烂脱落——而右小腿损伤太重，他被迫自行截肢，他用生动细节进行了描述。
However, Vlasenko’s left foot was so badly rotten from frostbite it fell off — while his right lower leg became so badly damaged he was forced to amputate it himself, he explained in graphic detail.
“我把它放在一块砖上，拿起一把刀，”弗拉先科说。“泪水直流，我必须把它锯下来。我锯下来了。而左腿，那条有伤口的腿，早已烂掉了。”
“I put it on a brick, took a knife,” Vlasenko said. “Tears were flowing, I had to cut it off. I cut it off. And the left leg, the one with the wound, had already rotted away.”
他补充说，随着周复一周过去，“骨头穿出皮肤，腿挂在那里。”一度俄军投放扩音器劝他投降，承诺战俘交换后会释放他。
He added that as the weeks went on, “the bone came out of the skin, and the leg was hanging.”At one point, Russian forces dropped a loudspeaker urging him to surrender and vowing that they would free him following a prisoner exchange.
他回答道：“俄罗斯军舰，去你的吧！”这句话源自战争初期斯内克岛（Snake Island）防御者们发出的那句著名的反抗口号。
He responded, “Russian warship, go f–k yourself,” invoking the famous Ukrainian defiance from the defenders of Snake Island early in the war.
几个月来，他一直躲在一个狭小的避难所里，听着来自乌克兰战友们的无线电通讯。
For months, he hid in a cramped shelter, listening to radio transmissions from his Ukrainian comrades.
“能有人陪伴我，听到他们的声音，对我来说是一种幸福，”他说，“但那种孤独感实在难以忍受。”
“It was happiness for me that I wasn’t alone, that I could hear someone,” he said, adding that “it was very lonely.”
弗拉先科（Vlasenko）最终在一场大胆的救援行动中获救。这次救援使用了由古尔祖夫防御公司（Gurzuf Defense）设计、乌克兰军队改装的六旋翼无人机——这架无人机原本是用于轰炸任务的。
Vlasenko was saved after a daring rescue mission carried out using a hexacopter drone, originally configured as a bomber, designed by Gurzuf Defense and modified by the Ukrainian Army to carry him.
据乌克兰媒体《奥博龙卡》（Oboronka）报道，在这次发生在俄罗斯炮火下的特殊救援行动中，这架无人机将这名士兵吊到了300多英尺的高空，并将其安全地带到了11英里外的安全地带。
In the extraordinary operation conducted earlier this month under Russian fire, a Ukrainian heavy-lift drone lifted the soldier more than 300 feet into the air and flew him 11 miles to safety, Ukrainian outlet Oboronka reported.
救援人员还给这名士兵送了一部手机，里面装有关于如何在无人机下方固定自己的使用说明。
The soldier was sent a cell phone containing instructions on how to secure himself beneath the aircraft.
尽管弗拉先科患上了坏疽和冻伤，但他还是设法抓住了无人机，并在乌克兰攻击无人机的保护下被安全送回了地面。
Despite suffering from gangrene and frostbite, Vlasenko was able to attach himself to the hexacopter, which lifted him into the air, escorted by Ukrainian attack drones for protection.
“当我们飞过河流时，我非常害怕他们会把我们击落，担心自己会掉进水中……我不会游泳，”弗拉先科说道。
“When we were flying over the river, I was afraid that they would shoot me down, that I would fall into the water. I can’t swim,” Vlasenko said.
经过近16个月的艰苦等待，他终于获救，目前正在哈尔科夫的一家医院接受治疗。他还需要接受数月的康复治疗，并安装假肢。弗拉先科坦言，他至今仍无法相信这次救援行动真的成功了。“真的无话可说……我想感谢每一个人，”他说。
He was carried to safety, ending the almost 16-month ordeal, and is now recovering in a Kharkiv hospital, where he faces months of rehabilitation as well as the attachment of prosthetic limbs. Vlasenko admitted he still can’t “believe” that the mission was a success. “There are no words. I want to thank everyone,” he said.