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Volodymyr Buksha, a combat veteran, had a difficult ordeal during the fighting in Huliai Polye when his car was blown up by a mine. As a result of this tragic event, his fellow soldiers were killed on the spot, while Volodymyr himself was seriously wounded and lost one of his legs. Although he managed to save the other leg thanks to a well-done surgical operation, the loss of one limb left a huge mark on his soul.

Channel 7 spoke with Filip Matkovskyi, Deputy Director of Medical Affairs at Tellus Prosthetic and Orthotic Care Center, about prosthetic limbs and solutions to their maintenance issues.

That less than 5,000 Ukrainians have lost limbs since the war began last year. The exact figures are difficult to verify and could be many times higher.

The war continues and, unfortunately, we realize that more and more people will need prosthetics. The volume of work, applications of Ukrainians for help in prosthetics has changed a lot and our task is to provide everyone with quality products.

Austrian television made a report about our center and the need for prosthetics in such a difficult time of war.

Today, due to the war in Ukraine, the issue of prosthetic limbs is becoming more and more acute, especially for military personnel.

During her working visit to Odesa region, Yuliia Laputina, Minister of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine, member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, familiarized herself with the conditions in which the Defenders and Protectors of Ukraine undergo physical and psychological rehabilitation.

In 2018, on March 3, I froze my feet off. This is how my story of amputation begins. I was sent to the central hospital in Chernomorsk. For a month, doctors tried to save my limbs, gave injections, drips, but no. To my great regret, gangrene began.

The amputation happened at the end of 2021 after I was in a car accident. The doctors did not make a decision for a long time, in fact they brought me to the hospital and immediately took me to the amputation. When I saw my leg after the accident, I was shocked, but then after a couple of minutes I accepted the fact that my limb was damaged, the main thing is that I was alive. In the morning I woke up without a leg.

My amputation story started with sports, specifically kickboxing. It was this sport that I practiced in the 10-11th grades. It so happened that I fell during a physical education class, but despite the injury, I got up as usual and ran on, not even paying attention to the injury.

In rehabilitation, we face a difficult problem to overcome, such as the loss of motivation of the client during the first training sessions. Most often this is due to stereotypes that it is difficult and painful to use a prosthesis, but the client’s desire to get over the problem as quickly as possible is absolutely correct.

As an amputee at the stage of stump healing, a person visualizes that as soon as he or she puts on a prosthesis, he or she will immediately run on it. The whole situation with the absence of a limb will turn into a terrible dream and will be forgotten, but this is not quite true.

My name is Svetlana, I am 28 and I want to tell my story. Until I was 19 years old, I lived a normal carefree life. In the first year of university I pulled my leg, there was pain and swelling under the knee and only a year and a half later I was diagnosed with soft tissue sarcoma. I underwent a course of treatment and returned to normal life, resumed my studies. However, due to the negligence of doctors I missed a relapse and the disease returned with metastases. Since then, the disease is constantly making itself felt.

My name is Artem, and I want to share my story so that people do not doubt and make the right decision about their health and limbs in time.

It all started in childhood, I was born with a physical defect, a dimple on my spine. It did not manifest itself in any way, so the doctors said that it’s nothing, let the child grow quietly.

But when I was 10-11 years old, the foot on my left leg started to deform and my toes started to tighten. During consultations in hospitals with different doctors, I was told that I had to have surgery on my spine, because a lipoma was found there and the spinal cord was fixed. In 2010 I had an operation, I had a long recovery from it, because my legs were paralyzed, but then they really let go and sensitivity appeared in the right leg, but the left foot remained without feeling and without movement.

The loss of a limb is always difficult for a person to bear, both psychologically and physically. The doctor’s decision to amputate is like a blow to the head, often comes as a shock to both the patient and his relatives. But you should not despair. Millions of people lead active full life after amputation. They still work, love, marry, raise children and grandchildren, travel and enjoy life.

My name is Denys and I want to tell you my story about a car accident that happened 2017 on Friday the 13th. I was supposed to meet my girlfriend’s mom that day. I was working as a roofer, I arrived early from work, I picked up my girlfriend, she was working as a kindergarten teacher at the time.