The American charitable foundation, which provides free prosthetics for our soldiers in the states, has established a service center for the maintenance of prosthetics in Zakarpattia.

There, the military will be able to undergo rehabilitation, repair or replace a prosthesis.

The first fifty soldiers who returned from America are currently being rehabilitated in Transcarpathia, TSN reports. 

In a creepy video, 26-year-old soldier Maksym Datsenko filmed how he lost his leg in the battle near Vugledar.

"It was a fight, very close contact.

In some areas it was already just in the trenches, in others 100 meters, somewhere 20 meters.

The person who put the tourniquet on me died there," says Maksym. 

Ihor Oliynyk, a 52-year-old resident of Dnipro, was blown up by a mine and lost a limb.

Wounded, he was captured by the enemy and suffered inhuman abuse.

"They took a chainsaw, sawed off a piece of bone once, then a second time... They wanted to know where in a certain place, in the settlement, what personnel there is, and I had no idea about it," says the soldier.

Today, almost half a hundred soldiers who survived the horrors of war and lost their limbs are walking, running and even driving and snowboarding again.

They were helped to return to a normal life by the American prosthetics charity foundation.

"When the war started, we thought about how we could help in America.

They thought that prosthetics is what is needed now.

We opened a clinic in America, treated 46 patients, but we made 146 prostheses. Because there were two or three amputations each," says the president of the foundation, Yuriy Arishidze. 

The first group of fighters, who were prosthetics by American doctors, is currently undergoing rehabilitation in Transcarpathia, where the service center has been opened.

Fighters will be able to practice and get used to prostheses for free, and if necessary, repair or even replace them.

"No one says how hard it is to open your eyes and understand that you are not fat.

It is very difficult to realize yourself in a wheelchair, lying down... No one will explain that you will be able to live, drive a car, take a child to kindergarten.

The biggest thing I was afraid of was that I wouldn't be able to drive, but nothing like that," says soldier Vadim. 

Not just to teach a fighter to walk or drive with a prosthesis, but also to adjust the structure while wearing it.

In fact, it is a permanent accompaniment of the patient, which continues with the return to Ukraine.

"There will be constant work of a rehabilitator with the patient - a prosthetist with the patient," Yuriy adds. 

The soldiers will have to service their prostheses at least twice a year - that is why the service center in Ukraine was necessary, says the doctor who made new limbs for the soldiers.

"The prosthesis has to be adjusted, because the stump decreases in size and when this happens, it changes.

We have to set it all up so that it is comfortable and does not rub," says prosthetist Yakiv Gradinar. 

So they want to invite Ukrainian therapists, prosthetists and technicians to study in the United States.

"We did not come to Ukraine for business, we have enough business in America as well.

We came to help in such a difficult time for Ukraine.

Our goal is not only to help with prosthetics, to convey to American society that the war continues, the wounded are returning from the front," adds Yakiv.

Currently, the financing of the project is being taken care of by American businessmen.

In the future, the doctors hope to create a special state program under which Ukrainian fighters will be able to go for free prosthetics.

As of now, American doctors have more than 750 applications from the wounded.

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