Soldier Vitalii Hryn

I am Hryn Vitalii, was born in 1982. In 2014, I was voluntarily mobilised. On 20 May 2014, I joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine and served in a reconnaissance company of the 24th Brigade. 

In August 2014, I was wounded in Lutuhine, Luhansk region. After a long treatment, I was demobilised and received the 3rd group of disability.

During the full-scale invasion, I came back to serve in the rear unit. Coincidentally, it happened on 20.05.2022. After a year of service, I felt severe pain in my hip joints. I went to the doctors. They examined me, diagnosed me and said that I needed to replace both hip joints, starting with the left one.

Painkillers no longer help, I can hardly walk. That's why I'm asking for help with endoprosthetics from the Citizen Charitable Foundation and all those who care.

 

COLLECTED AND TRANSFERRED: UAH 95,000

 

Photo after the operation:

After having had endoprosthetic surgery of the hip joint of the left leg I have gone through the rehabilitation in December 2023 and now ready for the implant to be installed in my right leg. I am in constant pain and can barely walk so as of this moment leading the normal life is out of question. The delay of the surgery on the right leg causes excessive load on the leg that has already been treated and fitted with a prosthesis thus having a negative impact overall.  

The doctors are ready to conduct the surgery as early as February, and the positive experience with one leg leaves me hoping that operating the other will be just as successful so I can return to the life without pain and suffering.

 

COLLECTED AND TRANSFERRED: UAH 95,000

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After Vitalii’s second hip replacement surgery, he was called back to service too soon — he had completed only a month and a half of rehabilitation when he was again subjected to physical strain. Unfortunately, this decision led to complications. The implant began to shift, causing chronic pain, instability, and mechanical dysfunction of the joint.

In October 2025, doctors officially diagnosed:

• complications after right hip replacement surgery;
• implant instability, mechanical subluxation, pain while walking;
• the need for a repeat surgical procedure — revision hip replacement.

The team at the Citizen Foundation once again took Vitalii under their care. We understood this was not just another surgery — it was a fight to save the existing implant and prevent the body from failing completely.

Thanks to you — those who believe in Vitalii — the required amount has been fully raised. The new implant has been installed. His condition has stabilized. Rehabilitation has already begun. Vitalii is undergoing recovery, and we are in contact with his doctors. The process will be long since it’s a repeat operation after complications, but what matters most is that there is progress and there is support.

We thank each and every one of you who stood by his side.

We are closing this fundraiser with deep gratitude but not closing the story. We will continue to accompany Vitalii on his path to recovery. Because support doesn’t end with surgery, it continues until a person can live freely again.

Thank you to everyone who didn’t walk past.
Thank you for being part of this important fight.

 

COLLECTED AND TRANSFERRED: UAH 53,620

TOTAL COLLECTED AND TRANSFERRED: UAH 243,620