The Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) intelligence service reported this on Facebook, Ukrinform reports.
Taras Prots (KRAKEN special forces unit) and Sergey Shikun (Active Actions Department), who were seriously wounded during the war, completed one of the toughest races in the world – the Spartan Ultramarathon World Championship in Morzine in the French Alps, according to the report.
The participants covered a total of 52 kilometers of mountain route with more than 60 obstacles and a height difference of over 2,800 meters on prostheses. It took the Ukrainians 9.5 hours to complete the route.
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The GUR emphasized that, despite amputations and other injuries, both soldiers continue to actively serve Ukraine, serving as examples of the unbending spirit of Ukrainian riflemen.
“The impressions are amazing. We are tired, but we do not feel anything “unbearable”. The thought of leaving the track did not arise, because there is a task, a goal – and we need to move towards it,” Prots noted.
“It was quite a serious test, but we overcame it, and this is important. Everything depends on character, on the will to live, on the desire to be indestructible, to be steel. For yourself, and then for others,” Shikun emphasized.
The participation of GUR veterans in the Spartan Ultra World Championship is part of a campaign to raise UAH 1 million as part of the Limitless project for the rehabilitation of GUR veterans who lost limbs as a result of combat injuries.
As reported by Ukrinform, two combat veterans from the GUR special forces, Ivan Tarn and Alexander Dashko, both amputees, conquered the Himalayas as part of the Limitless charity project.
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