Citizen Charity Foundation provides comprehensive assistance to seriously injured military personnel and their family members, offering state-of-the-art prosthetics, medical treatment, physical and psychological rehabilitation, and training.
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Soldier Serhii Kulinets
I am a major of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a combat veteran. In 2019 I enrolled at the Petro Sahaidachnyi National Army Academy for officer leadership courses. In 2020 I received the initial officer rank of junior lieutenant and was assigned to a military unit as a mechanized platoon commander. I connected my entire future with military service. But in 2021 my life changed. Returning from an official business trip from Kyiv, I was involved in a road accident. The injuries sustained were so severe that doctors were forced to amputate both of my lower limbs… I had to relearn how to move, use prostheses, and live under new circumstances. But even after the loss of both legs I did not leave the service. I served for as long as my health allowed. On June 1, 2026, I was discharged from the Armed Forces of Ukraine on health grounds. Today I am beginning a new stage of life. But in order to remain independent, move around, study, and work, I need proper prosthetics. The prosthetics center agreed with me on the manufacture of prostheses in minimum configuration — without a foot, knee joint, and adapters. However, even with such a configuration, the amount provided by the state program is insufficient. My first education is in law. In the future I plan to become a lawyer. I want to use my knowledge, military and life experience to help people who need legal protection.
For this I need to be able to move confidently, work, and live independently.
COLLECTING: UAH 48,844
Soldier history
Soldier Serhii Obmaniuk
I am the wife of defender Serhii Obmaniuk.
My Serhii is a serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. From January 2024 he served in military unit 4942 in the company for changing the directions of unmanned aerial vehicle movement and covering strategic and civilian objects. He worked throughout all of Ukraine, including in Kharkiv Oblast, where it was particularly dangerous. After one of his night combat duties, returning from service, Serhii was involved in a terrible road traffic accident. A severe traumatic brain injury. The doctors gave little chance of survival. Intensive care. Machines. Sleepless nights. Then came extremely complex surgeries, the installation of a large titanium plate, endless hospitals, rehabilitations, and a fight for every movement. We were told that there was almost no chance of independent movement… Today, after a year and a half of fighting, he has already restored his memory, regained his speech, and can move independently with the help of a cane. After the rehabilitation course at the “AGAPE UKRAINE” rehabilitation complex Serhii learned to walk short distances within an indoor space without additional devices, and longer distances — up to 800 meters — independently, using a single-point cane. He is also able to manage stairs, and has improved his endurance, balance, and walking speed. There is also important progress in speech. The wife of Serhii, Svitlana, approached the Citizen Charity Foundation with a request to help him undergo one more intensive rehabilitation course — a 14-day program at the “Western Rehabilitation and Sports Center” of the NCSPI. Despite the significant progress, Serhii still has a high risk of falling, limited mobility in daily life. The next course will be aimed at improving walking, speed, and endurance, strengthening the muscles of the lower limbs, developing coordination, and more actively engaging the arm in everyday activities.
COLLECTING: UAH 56,000
Soldier history
Soldier Andrii Petruk, call sign SILVER
Я офіцер 36-ї окремої бригади морської піхоти. З 2016 року я захищав Україну на Маріупольському напрямку. У березні 2022 року під час виконання бойового завдання під артилерійським обстрілом я отримав важке осколкове поранення лівої ноги з відкритим переломом великогомілкової кістки. 12 квітня 2022 року я потрапив у полон у Маріуполі. Я пережив теракт в Оленівці, потім було Камишинське СІЗО. Через поранення я не міг нормально ходити – увесь цей час пересувався, стрибаючи на одній нозі. Мене не зламали… Сьогодні я вдома. Я щиро вдячний кожному, хто зустрічав нас після повернення. Ці емоції неможливо забути. Зараз я проходжу лікування та передопераційну реабілітацію. У серпні 2026 року на мене чекає складна операція – коригуюча остеотомія великогомілкової кістки та артроскопія колінного суглоба. Після неї розпочнеться тривале відновлення. Лікарі прогнозують боротьбу із запаленням, набряком, болем та атрофією м’язів травмованої ноги. Крім того, значне навантаження припадатиме на здорову ногу та поперек. Саме тому вони рекомендують мені мати власний апарат електроміостимуляції. Для мене це не просто медичний прилад. Це можливість щодня підтримувати м’язи, зменшувати біль, пришвидшувати відновлення та пройти реабілітацію значно ефективніше.
COLLECTING: UAH 77,000
Soldier history
Soldier Volodymyr Kotsur, call sign MENT
On February 8, 2024, I entered service. My combat path went through Vovchansk, the Chornobyl zone, and the border of Volyn Oblast. Later our unit was transferred to the area of the Serebryansky Forests. Those were the most difficult positions.
At the positions we held out for fourteen days. Those exact fourteen days I do not remember. I do not remember the moment of the wounding either. My fellow soldiers told me it was a drop from a drone. The explosion threw my fellow soldier and me in different directions. I got the worst of it.
Everything that happened after that I know only from my wife’s words. She said: “The most difficult days began. The doctors said that the brain was barely responding. You were in a medically induced sleep. Then one evening I received a call saying that you were being transferred to the Kyiv Regional Hospital. I arrived there with fear, and the doctor came out of the intensive care unit and said: — Your husband is breathing on his own. The brain has begun to respond”.
On January 7 I was transferred to Lviv. My wife says that it was there that my new life began. The tracheostomy was gradually removed, they began to do away with catheters and medical equipment. The body began to fight. A few weeks later rehabilitation began. I relearned how to sit. I learned to maintain balance. I learned to control my body. Then came long months of rehabilitation at “Nezlamnykh,” at Next Step, and in Sianky. The doctors say that my traumatic brain injury is very severe, and every stage of recovery requires a great deal of time and effort. Today I am already able to dress myself, shave, and manage my daily needs independently. I go to my sessions on my own in an electric wheelchair. But I still cannot walk without outside assistance.
I need to undergo specialized rehabilitation at the “Western Rehabilitation and Sports Center” of the NCSPI. It is there that I have a chance to take one more step toward an independent life.
COLLECTING: UAH 120,000
Soldier history
Soldier Mykhailo Myna, call sign ELEKTRYK
I am a father of three children. In 2022 I tried twice to volunteer for the front. I was refused because I had three minor children. On February 16, 2023, I voluntarily signed the documents and joined the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. I was assigned to the engineering and sapper company of the 33rd Separate Mechanized Brigade and became a senior sapper. I fought in the Zaporizhzhia direction — Mala Tokmachka, Robotyne. On October 17, 2023, during an assault I sustained my first severe wound. A 120-millimeter mortar shell exploded next to me. The explosion tore off part of my buttock. Then came the stabilization point, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Khmelnytskyi, the Military Medical Commission. And almost without rest back to the front line again. At the beginning of February 2024, our brigade was redeployed to Donetsk Oblast, near Kurakhove. On February 8 we entered the settlement of Pobeda. For three days we were continuously attacked by drones, aerial bombs, and artillery. We held the defense.
On February 14 we took shelter in a small basement. At that moment a tank shell struck the building. The concrete ceiling collapsed. At that very second I had risen slightly, and this saved my life. I heard my spine break…
In the night of February 18 we were pulled out from under the rubble… Kurakhove, the stabilization point, Dnipro, intensive care. On February 19, due to severe frostbite, doctors were forced to amputate both of my lower limbs. More than 30 surgeries. I spent six months in a lying position. A month and a half of rehabilitation in the hospital and I learned again to move independently in a wheelchair. A year and a half ago I could not feel my own body from my chest down to my toes. Today I can already feel cold and warmth down to my waist. I am alive. For further recovery I need specialized rehabilitation at the “AGAPE” center. It is there that I have a chance to continue my recovery, strengthen my body, improve motor functions, and take one more step toward a full life alongside my family. And here I cannot manage on my own, so I am compelled to ask for help.
COLLECTING: UAH 73,500
Soldier history
Soldier Duke
I am originally from Africa. I came to Ukraine in 2023. I did not consider it fair that Ukraine was attacked and that Ukrainians were forced to suffer simply because they wanted to decide for themselves how to live in their own country. During my service I participated in combat operations near Lyptsi and Kupyansk in Kharkiv Oblast, in Sumy Oblast, and in the Pokrovsk and Zaporizhzhia directions. In "Khartiya" I served as a group commander and senior mechanic. One day our medical position came under fire from Russian artillery. We received a call for the evacuation of the wounded. I got into the vehicle and set off to pick up the guys.
We found the wounded and took them. But on the way back the vehicle hit a mine. As a result of the explosion, I lost my right leg, my right arm, and part of the fingers on my left hand. In addition, I sustained multiple shrapnel wounds to the head, face, chest, and limbs, a traumatic brain injury, burns to the face and both eyes, and damage to the right eye. Today I am undergoing treatment and rehabilitation. I have already undergone surgeries to form the stumps of the amputated limbs, autodermoplasty (closure of the soft tissue defect) on the left hand, and ophthalmic surgical interventions. Ahead lies a lengthy recovery and preparation for prosthetics. Due to the high-level amputation of the right arm and the complete absence of all fingers of the left hand, I require outside assistance in daily life and everyday activities. Prosthetics of the fingers of the left hand will give me the ability to independently perform the most basic daily actions right now. It will also increase my chances in the future of properly mastering prostheses: putting them on independently, using them, and operating their functions. That is why the most important thing for me right now is a prosthesis for the fingers of the left hand. Without it I will not be able to begin the next stage learning to walk with a leg prosthesis.
The full cost of the prosthesis that suits me is 1,071,180.97 UAH. Taking into account the state payment of 171,459.00 UAH, the remaining cost amounts to 899,721.97 UAH. As of now, a portion of the amount has already been partially raised, and 551,837.83 UAH still needs to be collected. For me this amount is beyond my means, so I am compelled to ask for help.
COLLECTING: UAH 551,837
Soldier history
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Leading prosthetics company, which manufactured and fitted its first prosthesis in 1992. Presently, the head of the company Oleksandr Stetsenko and his team manufacture upper and lower limb prostheses of any complexity for different degrees of amputation, using the most advanced technologies in the field of prosthetics.
The company's employees have over 30 years of experience in the field of prosthetics and orthotics. During this long period of time, invaluable knowledge has been gained, and extensive practice in prosthetics and rehabilitation has been acquired on the basis of leading foreign and domestic orthopaedic enterprises. SIGMA-ORTO specialists use the most advanced technologies, components and materials. The staff is a strong team of like-minded people who are passionate about their work and have been dedicated to it for many years. Every year, hundreds of people return to full life, positive changes and grateful patients.
Psychological rehabilitation for soldiers and their families. The Mazurenko Center (Lviv) and the "Citizen" Charitable Foundation are launching a psychological rehabilitation program for soldiers who were injured during the war. Psychologists of the Mazurenko Center clinic will conduct consultations in an online or offline format. Members of soldiers families can also receive assistance. To participate in the program, you need to fill out an application on the foundation's website. We work to preserve the physical and psychological health of Ukrainians.
Vasyl Ryabko
UKRAINE
Frontman of the band PAPA CARLO, volunteer.
Sergii Ivanov
UKRAINE
Ukrainian TV presenter, writer, publicist, blogger. Host of the author's program "Antipodes" on the ISLND TV YouTube channel.
Vadym Svyrydenko
UKRAINE
Commissioner of the President on Rehabilitation of Combatants. Military paramedic, serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, participant of the Russian-Ukrainian war, social activist. Participant in the "Marine Corps Marathon" in Washington for 10 km, where he won in his category.
Viktor Marynchak
UKRAINE
Rector of the Church of John the Theologian of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (Kharkiv)
Roman Kashpur
UKRAINE
Military scout, record holder of Ukraine. The 16-ton An-26 aircraft moved from place to place on the prosthesis. Winner of the «Games of Heroes» project.
Andriy Zelinskyy
UKRAINE
Chief Chaplain of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), Advisor to the Head of the UGCC on Communication Strategy. Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Ukrainian Veterans Foundation under the Ministry of the Veterans' Affairs. Lecturer of the Ethics-Politics-Economics program at the Ukrainian Catholic University and the Institute of Leadership and Management of UCU. Co-founder and lecturer at the Ukrainian Leadership Academy, an author of books, publicist, and public figure.
