helps us overcome the russian terror eternal gratitude to all who work for our victory glory to ukraine petro of young boys in strollers to the airport of ukraine we people just stand and look in shock you

are still standing on my feet nor on my hands what styles pride for myself for myself not for the boys it was all very fast, we wanted to change our position, but it so happened that drones flew over us. how did you know that the war had started? a rocket arrived, that is, there was no message. they hit you right away. i didn't i know, maybe there was a message, but i was

near the equipment, since we were going to come to another place, we were gathering, we removed the masking nets, and it turned out that we were a little lucky, we removed the masking nets, and it turned out that we still had a white one after the winter they were simply unfolded, the commander told us to assemble it, when we just went to it, and so we moved away about 15-20 meters from the equipment, if we had stood closer, maybe everyone died and you were wounded on the first day 24 21 march, over time, in general, they start our position, er , at about nine in the morning, they decided to break through for the first time,

they went with tanks, the first tank was immediately burned, and they continued to survey. i wounded him a lot, he was turned to the other side, we took him out and it turns out that he was carried to the tow truck on a stretcher, and i returned to the trench by force, and literally 10 minutes later - that's where the projectile landed, there were four of us in the trench, and i had three more after the arrival remained i and two well, i once tore my sisters to pieces, and i had many. well, that is, i mixed them nearby if i fainted on the other side. it's okay,

stay conscious, i was with us. do you remember anything about whether the wound was successful? i received it on march 3 at about half at five in the evening, can you tell me under what circumstances it happened, so it changed at night from the post, i came to rest in the morning, i hear the commands on the walkie-talkie saying that the combat alert is for everyone to take their posts, everyone had their place, everyone knew it, so we went and occupied i'm sorry, and we saw russian military equipment rolling around the airfield, tanks, those games, and infantry fighting vehicles,

what was there, we opened fire. that's right. we had a firefight with them during the day, and we saw how the enemy tanks began to hide . the companion was the arrival from the tank, and they were jamming it. and it was as if something hit me in the leg. well, at first i didn't understand it happened. i was on all fours, uh, crawled up the wall, and only then did i already see what happened, and well, it came off so , so, at first, i fell, then rose i think i thought that i needed to move further away from the technique, i started to move away and then i broke down. i also fell to the ground, uh, but after that i stood up, well, i think that what

happened next and saw that, well, your legs are not just hanging on the tendons, when your leg was immediately torn off, you did not feel it it was very big adrenaline i could still move, but i want to from the leg , it was not there, i could move, it is necessary on one leg, our animals felt the pain, i felt it already in the hospital, the adrenaline started to go away a little bit, eh, i remember very well, the pain was very great when they were filming i was kicked from the leg,

and the second one. shrapnel in the leg, and the one that was self -screened. with help , then a position nearby also came , he looked, and in short, they all ran to me to call for help, i was with uh-uh at this moment uh-uh, with the trench in my arms and fell to the side of my own why didn’t you wait there in the trench for help, why did you crawl to meet them because i was afraid that if the russians would go, i would change it they will take prisoners, that is, or i'm just shooting at the trench there. i, er, felt pain when i

was full, that is, when i went down the trench. and i crawled back and ran through the gate and immediately began to adjust the tor rocket and we were in the open area and we were changing and carrying a tan there, and there was no strength because there were very few of them and all the guys were at other points and in my opinion my comrades broke out sticks from the tree from the tree and put them on the ground and suffered this evacuation when we were not injured. i had no thoughts at all in my head . i just sat and looked at my leg.

there was no fluff and shock. tourniquet tourniquet tourniquet i just lowered my eyes to the bottom and saw that i had a tourniquet hanging here, i took it off and started to apply everything and there was no pain, there was no pain, the pain was only after that the next day after the operation of the ukrainians, there was another one milk duct in general, when in such conditions, in conditions of war, in conditions when we are very happy for something, our

adrenaline level increases, and this causes what dulls the fight and gives more energy to do what needs to be done, and this happens not only in case of injury, but also in primary prosthetics, people are very happy that they received a protest, even one of the soldiers said and when we asked to adjust and i will not return it to you, and in this with great satisfaction with great great joy , they also do not feel pain, that's why i gave them all fed to the point that please look because you are now very satisfied, but listen to your body if it starts to hurt, we have to correct it if we are talking about the american school of prosthetics , what is it, how experienced is it, in general,

the american school is very advanced, and this is because america was a lot years in the war with vietnam and cancer afghanistan and if it wasn't sad but it advanced prosthetics in america when a person loses a limb it passes a very difficult time because losing a limb is like losing a friend or a family member and this period while the ring heals until all the operations are done if it is necessary to do it after the very primary a-a injury, then the person is sitting and cannot move normally and i, for

my part, generally ask to do it so that it is the norm. therefore that if a person has reached the point where he is ready for the prosthesis to be manufactured, i immediately make sure that they come, where it takes a few hours, i take a measurement, and immediately make it so that the test sleeve is installed, and they leave, because this is such a moment for them. what kind of psychological help does it have for them to return to life yes, i had time to think about something at this moment i wanted to say goodbye to my relatives, i didn’t think about anything, i wanted to say goodbye, i

said goodbye, you know, some kind of jolt just clicked in my head, and i thought that it’s nowhere to say goodbye, the janitor and i have to do something, and then i didn’t get up even though to move and on one leg to drag and pull me out. well, my comrades were evacuating, help me - two ambulances arrived with uh, uh, since we were further away from them uh, i had a phone and turned it on a flashlight and why are they waving, then they noticed me, the driver ran up to me, when i was harnessed and the guys helped me, the tow truck soon when the injury already happened and your leg was amputated, who else supported you, your parents, or your relatives, or they, your parents, what did your

parents think that when i came home in i will have panic attacks that i will be very upset, and i arrived on the contrary . to talk to a psychologist so that i was joking , i say, do you want a psychologist to sit with a psychologist after his conversation with me, they started bombing the hospital from the hospital, and doctors also started stopping by, and already there, well, there, too , they did a lot of operations there, i remember there were operations here. well, not so good conditions for

conducting an operation there. well, first of all, it was damp and dusty, and secondly, there was always a--and there was almost not enough medicine to arrive. at first, there was enough. some people, well, all of them had enough, more precisely, medicines . well, then over time what ah painkillers started- began to wear off, then uh, anesthesia for people to do surgery also started, well, they ended motivated me well, what i find, i am with my boyfriends , that at any time they will help me if, well , i need support he will also provide it . that is, well, we have such a thing and the guys help each

other, so i didn’t doubt anyone and i was there with each of the low ones . amputation and he told me tipa brother, it's all bullshit, look, look at me, i have this pressure. at first, i didn't understand what he was showing me. he was showing him his leg. how real is his? well, we don't care about that, here he was with his prosthesis, performing all the same tasks as the boys, the same day, but you also had

a story developing at the same time, that is, at the time when you were in the hospital and you had your wounds relatives were leaving mariupol. mother is always there as the mother of the father's boy told, she said let's go out, like, give a squeeze, because there will be nothing here, let's go out, that's it, dad, that's it. well, i just took off the formula and-y. well, because my mother asked to take our brother out of mariupol, because if they stayed there it's just, well, the neighbors burned it down like that what uh-uh well, in that house where we lived, the military fathers and i and-and the neighbors removed you and collected information, um, everything was interrogated, everyone went where who lives, you know who you gave me yes. what kind of person is this? well, of course, eh slavika already at first, he was like this guy, well, he was good there, well,

he seemed to be friends with us there, he helped everything. like, and then just when the russians came, he changed his shoes, and gave him a bottle of vodka, and he said, slavik, i want to say something. well, we we will return mariupol to anyone and then they will simply be everyone who betrayed ukraine, they will go to russia and there for more than a month. well, almost from the first day of the war. well, when he was already sitting at home, it was very cool. in general, yes, but it burned down he was still whole. when we left, we had only

just left, and a stove arrived there. you can melt water there, bring water there to bathe, and there was no place to heat water for a fire in the apartment. they broke everything, too, went to who is that, yes, there, well, people somehow shared there, who had what, there

were people at the same time. oh, there were a lot of people there, and with small children, there were conditions, and there were many children, teenagers for the tribute and for the grandmother, he said in the evening that he would call in the morning and in the morning he didn't call well, i understood that something happened because he was well, he would still find a way out and still somehow called me and my grandmother calmed me down and spoke well, like maybe he's busy i'm talking no, something happened, and later that evening he dialed and told me, and he doesn't remember how he called me, he was leaving, probably because of some kind of anesthesia, your father is

georgian, your mother is belarusian, you are not quite an american and you are now almost 100% busy with rehabilitation ukrainians how did it happen, well, first of all, it was a war, as it were he can't, uh, just don't hurt any person , that is, any adequate person, he doesn't care about it and just sits there and looks at it, but it's unreal, especially since i've been to ukraine many times and my friends are there, that's why we're doing it here that's what we can do, that's why it turned out that we have opportunities and we use opportunities , the doctor took full responsibility for prosthetics . people directly from ukraine started to write our internal questionnaire so that anyone can come in and remember it. people come in and fill it out, as it were, and we can see how everything

works because medicine in america is generally very expensive. if you don't have health insurance, it's practically unreal, very expensive to get help here . well, one plus for us is that the doctor himself, that is, he provides free services because the service itself costs a lot of money . let's clarify, that is, the doctor does not charge for his services for his work. but the materials themselves, there are prostheses, all this costs the same as prosthetics, but the work itself prosthetics costs 60% of the total well, of the total cost of the work, that is, it turns out that the doctor does not take any money for the work, and with us it turns out that we buy, only the cost of the prosthesis remains that is, we buy pure prostheses, if it is about the cost of the prosthesis, it is clear that they are different , but from and to how much it costs, well, if you take the cost of your prostheses on yourself, then of course it is difficult to say because it is lower

the limbs are higher than the knee, lower than the wedge, the hand is also lower than the elbow, higher than the elbow, but on average, we calculated that somewhere around 15,000 per person, this is the very seed material, that is, how would it be work, this is also the same, and i am an airline ticket, that is, the expenses that on delivery to here. where do you get this money? at the moment, we had three months of preparation because we needed a lot of international negotiations. it was necessary for the military to be released because the military would have restrictions on exit, and it was also necessary. the american side to give permission for entry because this is also such a bureaucracy and no matter how complicated it is, you won’t get it now just like that down there . they just told us to do it, well, how about our people, that is, friends, some organizations, small, small businesses that are here, but i will tell you, that's how we just started. when everything went viral on social networks, the first

3,000 were reported only by ukrainians, and that was all. the doctors and i were surprised because the road replacement costs a lot, and the ukrainian one, which is located in ukraine, seems like they don’t have big finances, but we just have here we had a night when in ukraine it is a day and i just get a notification and it comes and you come five dollars 2 $, 3 $, it was so wow because we are such a mass of ukrainians that we don’t give up so much that two dollars but somehow it won’t play a role at all yes well, that is, well no, they would like to be part of it, they have started, at the moment, americans are already connecting to a small company that donates 5,000 each. this is your first trip abroad, as they are

very impressed. i fly with it, or i saw the country, you guys have a lot of black humor, of course. did you ever go abroad? you were once in the fifth grade with your class . at the moment kalin was taken from the rehabilitation center in ukraine, er, during this period of our journey, i keep in touch with vera, well, he asked where are you there, what are you there, well, how are things with us, and the carpets flew in, they literally already flew to america, i found a connection communication and i wrote to him that yura is there after a certain period of time we will sit down and he said that

you will be fine when you get off the plane last, they will come after you eh he said that there will be a certain number of people eh and it is important that someone will be with you vision well i thought how many people we thought that the guys and i were talking, we thought that since we were settled in ukrainian families that they would come, the doctor would come, yura would come, and the family would come to pick us up, they didn't leave the airport, there were 100-200 people, they were all shouting , thank you, great people of ukraine kiss me, scold me, after

the flight, we didn’t sleep for more than a day or so, he says, “ i’m going back, and i’d fly here, if i forgot everything, and on the way back, we got such emotions. we have such a golden period - it’s 30 days . more upper extremity because we we call it muscle memory when a person still remembers how she used her limb and she does not compensate with another limb, does not take away

the functions performed by the affected limb, but we understand why this is a difficult period, then for us this golden period does not work very well, but we are trying to make it a clinic as much as possible, all five people from the topic eh and yura says guys so and so today is one day off eh the doctor has a day off and all those who help him with prostheses also have a day off but they saw that you came they wanted for today do as much as possible so that you will be able to put on a prosthesis in the future, eh. and so it is planned that we will start the process in about

a week. legs, i say well, we'll get up sooner, it didn't heal for a long time, and then the doctors, this, er, after how many months, yes, it's for sure, let 's sew it up very quickly, we left, well, even this, no one expected that everything on the table was made from a mold, then they made maxim after maxim the government after the authorities made me sweat, they made casts of denis, they went down twice to get coffee, got up, danya was already on her feet, stood up again, went down to drink and

got up, they gave us a maximum, we sat for 10 minutes. they gave me the first sensations when you became unusual , very unusual, how to fight kostilyova, who was it? well, it's a very big desire, you can't do that, because you feel like a full-fledged person