Thousands of Ukrainian soldiers return from the frontline, wounds festering with drug-resistant superbugs. "In these wounds, there are very aggressive microbes, and it is very difficult to fight them," says the chief surgeon at the Dnipro Mechnikov Hospital, Sergiy Kosulnykov. Antimicrobial resistance directly causes over a million deaths every year. Since the Russian invasion, Ukraine has seen a particular increase in the resistance, according to the country's WHO representative, Jarno Habicht. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES