A woman and her daughter were left without legs after an explosion in Ukraine: how prosthetists from California return the ability to walk to the family

Mother and daughter, who lost limbs due to shelling in Kramatorsk, are undergoing prosthetics in the United States, reports with the BBC.

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They are assisted by the non-profit organization The Right to Walk Foundation.

In early April, Natalya Stepanenko decided to take the children out of the shelling in Kramatorsk. The father of the children died, and the stepfather went to fight, and the relative called the family to her place in the west of Ukraine.

But at the station, the family came under fire, killing 50 people. Natalia and 11-year-old Yana lost their legs.

An 11-year-old boy from the village of New York in the Donetsk region grew up at the moment when a Russian rocket flew into Kramatorsk railway station. with the BBC. His twin sister and mother, who were on the platform at the time of the explosion, were left without legs. Natalya - without one, daughter Yana - without two.

“While we were waiting for the train, Yana asked her mother for tea, which was prepared by volunteers on the platform. Yaroslav remained to guard the things in the room,” they told the family’s story at the St. Nicholas Children’s Hospital of the First Medical Center in Lvov, where mother and daughter have been treated for several weeks.

When Yana and Natalya went outside, there was an explosion. At that time, there were up to 4 people at the station, hoping to be evacuated from the region, where the situation began to deteriorate sharply.

As a result of rocket attacks, 50 people were killed, 5 of whom were children. About 100 wounded.

Natalya, they said in the hospital in Lvov, still cannot forgive herself for this trip for tea.

The woman did not understand when the explosion occurred - at that moment, she admits, she did not hear anything at all. And when she opened her eyes, everything around was covered in blood, people were lying everywhere.

“I tried to get up, but how? I looked at my foot, looked at Yana, but she didn’t have any sneakers,” the woman told the United for Ukraine organization.

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When 11-year-old Yana woke up, her first desire was to run away and find her mother, the girl says. “But I couldn’t get up. It was very painful - I looked at my legs and burst into tears,” the girl sighs heavily during an interview, sitting on her hospital bed.

“Putin wants to stop Ukraine, but he is not able to stop an 11-year-old girl. Look at her! It was blown up, but it is indestructible,” the mayor quotes American rehabilitation therapist Peter Hersh, who works with Ukrainian patients.
They were treated in Lvov, and now the family has flown to California.

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Sadovyi said that the family would live in America for about a year. They have already been helped to find a house and buy insurance.

After the completion of prosthetics, Stepanenko will return to Ukraine.

The explosion at the railway station in Kramatorsk shocked the world. However, Russia denies any involvement in this.

They stated that they were not armed with the “Tochka U” that was used to hit the station. However, experts and journalists note that the Russian Federation previously used these missiles in both Ukraine and Syria.

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