Petro Mosiychuk, a serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who lost both his hands and his sight in the war, is currently undergoing rehabilitation at the UNBROKEN Centre based at the First Medical Association of Lviv.
The soldier sustained a severe injury on 9 February 2026 in Donetsk region as a result of a hit by a Russian FPV drone. After the strike he completely lost his sight and both hands. First, he was evacuated to Izium, then treated in Kharkiv and Kyiv, and later transferred to Lviv, where at the UNBROKEN Centre he finally grasped the full extent of his injuries.
Petro is originally from Rivne region. It was there that he met his future wife, Aliona. The couple worked in Poland for a time, where he proposed to his beloved. In 2021 they returned to Ukraine and got married.
When the full-scale invasion began, Petro immediately joined the ranks of the Armed Forces. At first he served as a driver in the 95th Separate Support Battalion, and later moved to the position of unmanned aerial vehicle operator in the 66th Separate Mechanised Brigade named after Prince Mstyslav the Brave.
Despite the war, the couple consciously decided not to postpone having a child. Before long, Aliona became pregnant, and their daughter Liana was born. Because of his service at the front, Petro mostly watched her grow up via video calls.
After he was wounded, doctors tried for some time to save at least his sight, but the damage from the blast injury proved too severe. The defender admits that coming to terms with the loss of his hands and sight has been extremely difficult, but he draws strength from his wife and little daughter.
“It was very hard for me to accept. I don’t want to say that I’ve accepted it one hundred per cent. But I still have to find a way to get back on my feet, because I have a wife and a little daughter,” says the defender.
For several months now, Petro has been working with specialists at the UNBROKEN Centre. Every day he trains to orient himself in space without sight, learns self-care skills and prepares for future hand prosthetics. His wife is constantly by his side, and now their three-year-old daughter as well, supporting him at every stage of his recovery. The parents explained the changes to the child in a simple and understandable phrase: daddy will have “new hands and eyes”.
The centre’s doctors stress that for Petro, as for other severely wounded soldiers, rehabilitation will be long and challenging. At UNBROKEN, each patient is supported by a multidisciplinary team: surgeons, trauma specialists, prosthetists, psychotherapists and rehabilitation therapists. Here, the wounded receive a full cycle of care — from treatment to prosthetics and functional recovery — without having to search for different facilities or go abroad.
The UNBROKEN Centre in Lviv treats both military personnel and civilians affected by the war, giving them a chance to return to the most independent life possible.