Soldier Dmytro, call sign RYBA (FISH)

In 2019, I signed a contract and joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine. After training, I joined the 95th separate airborne assault brigade. At the end of 2021, our unit was sent to the Donetsk region. 

We faced a full-scale invasion in Toretsk, and in March we were redeployed to the Bakhmut direction.

 
Defending our freedom, performing combat missions, I came under mortar fire and was seriously injured: multiple gunshot shrapnel injuries to the chest, severe spinal cord contusion at the T-11 level, closed cranial injury, etc.

It happened on the 7th of March 2022 in the town of Bakhmut. I did not lose consciousness, I was always conscious. I remember that after I fell, I immediately realised that I could not feel my legs. Military medics immediately administered first aid and evacuated me to Mechnikov Hospital in Dnipro. There, they performed surgery and stabilised my condition.
 
Then I underwent a lengthy treatment and began the process of recovery. However, my legs still do not move. Doctors say that to get up from the wheelchair I need long-term rehabilitation.

For 2 years now, I have been working hard to get back on my feet and return to the ranks of the Armed Forces.

Currently, I need rehabilitation at the Zakhidnyi Rehabilitation And Sports Centre Of The National Committee For Sports For The Disabled People Of Ukraine.

 

COLLECTED AND TRANSFERRED: UAH 90,000

We would like to thank the London Marathon 2024 team and our partner charity British-Ukrainian Aid organization for raising funds.

 

You can support other fundraisers for the wounded on the website of the Citizen Foundation - https://ctzn24.com/en/heroes 

or on the website of the London Marathon: 

- https://2024tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/oleksii--rudenko

- https://2024tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/heorhii-roshka

- https://2024tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/viacheslav-kulakovskyi