Soldier Maksym

My name is Maksym. I have been mobilised and in service since December 2022. Like most Ukrainians, I did not choose military service, it chose me. During the full-scale invasion, I could not stand aside when the enemy came to my land.
 
After training, we were sent to Eastern Ukraine, Donetsk region.
 
I was wounded on the 18th of February 2023 in Vuhledar during an artillery shelling. Immediately after arriving at the position, my comrades-in-arms and I were unloading the ammunition supply. And immediately a missile landed right next to the vehicle. And I was in it. I managed to notice a glow in the area of the cases and heard someone shouting: "Get back!". And that was it. I came to senses facedown in the snow. I felt myself - my right leg was missing. A vehicle pulled up, they loaded me in, and I passed out on the way. According to the documents, they took me to two hospitals and then sent me to Dnipro.

 
How did I take the amputation? I don't like talking poetically, it was gone and that's it. I was doing my best to recover. In general, I think I was even lucky, because most of those I was with died in just a couple of days.

I am grateful to my comrades-in-arms who did not lose their cool, provided first aid and quickly evacuated me from the battlefield. I am grateful to the doctors for their professionalism and for saving my life. 
 
I have huge plans for the future, but the older I get, the more I realise that there is no point in simply talking about them. It's not my place to dream, I'm an adult now. I need to do things, not just dream.
 
But in order to implement my plans and commitments, I need to get back on my feet and get a prosthesis with increased functionality first. However, the state funds are insufficient for it, and I need to get extra funding from charitable sources.
 

COLLECTED AND TRANSFERRED: UAH 115,380.95

 

 

Maksym has undergone a long journey of treatment, recovery and prosthetics.

In order to master the prosthesis and fully recover, he needed additional rehabilitation, which was provided by the Citizen Charitable Foundation as part of the Rehabilitation for Cyborgs program.

The following services were provided to the soldier at the HALYCHYNA Comprehensive Rehabilitation Centre, with which the foundation cooperates
- consultations with specialists;
- a course of stump massages;
- individual sessions with a physical and occupational therapist;
- classes to master the skills of using a prosthesis;
- mechanotherapy;
- manual mobilisation of joints;
- aquatic exercises, etc.
Maksym has already returned home and is moving freely with his prosthesis.

COLLECTED AND TRANSFERRED: UAH 19,200

 

TOTAL COLLECTED AND TRANSFERRED: UAH 134,580.95