Now veterans play video games to cope, I cannot imagine these new "bonus points" warriors ever be able to hold controller to play a regular video game with their son without flashbacks, once back to civilian life. But guessing long term effects and reintegration into civilian life is the last priority for Ukrainians now, and just a nice controlled psych experiment for the west.
Ucraine is the forerunner, next wars will go with robots, and might even have a LLM "Brain, or remote and here we go again.
Age is just a number, as you see it works for them. War is not about fine and nice.
War is also the driver of tech.
nice controlled psych experiment for the west.
I bet the "other side" has a similar set up, or worse.
The article said as much, how where soldiers given some metal orden for: How many life he took.