Lyudmila Belinska first found out that her husband had died, and after 10 days she was informed that he was alive, but in captivity, so the woman dared to steal her husband from under the Russian convoy, TSN reports.

Every day, Ruslan, together with Lyudmila and Khrystyna, go to the rehabilitation center.

At first, even with their help, he could not take a single step, and today, although it is difficult, he walks on his own with a walker.

"I was in a panic, it was hard for me to accept that I was helpless," says Ruslan.   

His wife secretly watches him and rejoices in his every move.

She already lost Ruslan once, when she was called and told that her husband had died near Kherson.

"Your husband is a hero, he died, we will bring him in a day or two.

Am I saying this for sure he is?

So!

Three witnesses who saw how the head pierced through, people do not survive such an injury", - the woman recounts the conversation.  

She was told that under heavy fire they could not retrieve the body, but they would try to do so soon and the family should prepare for the funeral.

At that time, Ruslan was lying in a trench in the village of Oleksandrivka in the Kherson Region.

"They dragged me to the trench so that the machinery wouldn't run over me.

I lay in the trench for three days," the man recalls.  

For three days, when the fighting subsided, the residents of Oleksandrivka went to the trenches to see if there were any wounded Ukrainian soldiers there.

"They heard that I was snoring and got me.

They fed me eggs and milk," the man recalls.  

Ruslan was buried in a barn, but the man periodically fainted, his head was pierced, two men decided to take him to the hospital, but the Russians intercepted him.

The Russians brought Ruslan to the SIZO, and later to the Kherson hospital.

Their captain came for questioning.

"He offered me to go over to their side, I chose captivity," says Ruslan. 

The chamber was initially under the escort of Russian soldiers, and after the operation, Ruslan was no longer so carefully guarded.

Neurosurgeons removed part of the skull, cleaned the wound.

The brain was damaged, which affected motor skills and Ruslan could not stand up.

The occupiers understood that he would not be able to escape.

"Due to the fact that I was laid up for 10 days without medical help, a hematoma and suppuration occurred, parts of the bone had to be removed, because of these problems," says the soldier. 

On the hospital bed, Ruslan remembered his wife's phone and 10 days after the news of his death, doctors from Kherson called her and informed her that Ruslan was alive, but his condition was serious.

Since then, she was in contact with the doctor, but the situation in Kherson was worsening.

Medicines were becoming difficult, leaving and entering the occupied part became more and more difficult.

The referendum passed and the Ukrainian connection disappeared. 

In September, despite the danger, Lyudmila decided to go to occupied Kherson.

Her task was to find a transporter who not only knows this route, but who will agree to transfer a seriously wounded Ukrainian soldier through dozens of roadblocks.

And she found such a person.

She was able to warn Ruslan that she was leaving and that the days of waiting would turn into eternity.

"There is no and there is no, I don't know what to think and here the door opens.

I have tears in my eyes, I was crying, I can't speak", - the man holds back tears even now, when he remembers that moment.  

Lyudmila admits that her special operation would have been impossible without the help of desperate Kherson doctors who kept in touch with her and offered to write out a certificate that Ruslan was injured as a result of an accident, not on the battlefield.

"They made two statements - for ours and one for the Russians, that it was a road accident," Lyudmila says. 

To get out of the hospital, they strictly followed the advice of caring Kherson people.

A car was waiting for them at the black entrance, and behind the wheel of the car was the husband of a local masseuse who came to see Ruslan in the hospital.

Taking a risk, they bring the couple to the ferry crossing.

Ukrainian carriers are waiting for Ruslan and Ludmila behind her.

They pass dozens of Russian roadblocks, show a certificate of road accident, but fortunately, none of the Russians check them thoroughly. 

At the first Ukrainian checkpoint, they realize that the special operation was successful.

Lyudmila essentially kidnapped her Ruslan from captivity.

On September 13, they return home to Odessa, exactly on Ruslan's birthday.

Daughters are waiting for their parents with a cake. 

Now Ruslan trains hard for the sake of his daughters, his motor skills are impaired due to brain damage.

But the muscles are given a daily load so that the brain later remembers how to send the correct impulses with the limbs.

"The body will use the reserves and the healthy parts of the brain will take over the function of the damaged ones.

Neuroplasticity is a very complex process," says the rehabilitation center.  

The man wants to start at least moving around the apartment on his own.

"I do everything for this, I train.

The first step gives me hope for the future, that I will be able to walk," the man convinces.

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