They operate so that fighters can better see the target and be able to hit the enemy.

The ophthalmology clinic together with volunteers launched the "I see a goal" charity project.

Doctors perform laser correction free of charge for visually impaired soldiers according to the standards of NATO countries.

Already a week after the operation, the fighters return to the front, TSN reports. 

For the sake of these operations, the military comes to Kyiv from the front line.

The 35-year-old fighter under the pseudonym "Kim" has just come from Donetsk region, he is the commander of the grenade launcher.

Problems with his vision began in his childhood, but the diagnosis of myopia did not interfere with his life until the war began.

"I can't say that I have very bad eyesight, but I can't shoot from the same machine gun aiming further than 50 meters.

Now we are working, we have such a mini-artillery - SPG9, so there is also guidance, finding landmarks, it requires good vision," says "Kim".

Eye irritation was added to the visual impairment.

"I used the lenses, but they are not very comfortable on the front, when the rotations are 4 days, 7 days, 14. There are no conditions to change the lenses every day.

They have to be taken off at night, washed, cleaned, and the hands are constantly dirty, there are no conditions.

I have to not remove the lenses for 4-5 days, which is not very good," says the fighter. 

At the capital's ophthalmology clinic, he was promised that he would forget about lenses forever.

"We can do this with the help of laser vision correction.

Just as it is done in many countries of the world, in the armies of NATO countries, for example," says the head of the clinic. 

Such operations are carried out there by combat pilots, special forces and NASA astronauts and use unique methods.

"These methods are economical in relation to the cornea, that is, they allow you to preserve the maximum thickness of the cornea, which is very important during physical exertion.

But the result is the same as with other methods," says ophthalmologist Stanislav Saksonov.

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, about six hundred soldiers have been examined and treated in this clinic, and more than a hundred of them have undergone vision correction.

Now, together with a public organization, they decided to start a separate project "I see a goal".

"Guys from the front line order lenses for volunteers all the time, it's such a consumable for someone with poor vision.

It's all the time dust, explosions, hands touched, it's all the time danger.

It's not only a danger to his health and eyes, it's also a danger to those around him to see," says project co-founder Nataliya Popova.

They are ready to provide free vision correction to those who have been at war since the first days of the full-scale invasion, have myopia and are under 40 years old.

"Kim" fit the bill and was the first to call the project coordinators.

A week to recover and "Kim" will return to the front.

He says that now the Russian invaders will not hide from him even at a great distance.

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