A young soldier who was seriously wounded during counter-offensive operations is being put on his feet at the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center. Thanks to the team work of the doctors, the wound healed well, and the boy is already preparing for a major reconstructive operation.
Stas Tkachenko is from the city of Kovel in Volyn. At the age of 19, he returned from abroad to defend Ukraine. Now the guy is 21 years old. He is an active public figure and athlete. At first, he served in the TRO, and he got his first combat experience as a member of the special purpose brigade named after Ivan Bohun, in the battles for the Kherson region. And later, Stas transferred to the 3rd separate assault brigade, the backbone of which is Azov veterans. It was the ideology of these fighters, their brotherhood and devotion to Ukraine that impressed Stasov. The young soldier became the commander of the grenade launcher unit.
The boy was wounded in June during counteroffensive actions in the Bakhmut area. While rescuing a wounded comrade, the bullet hit Stas directly in the leg and massive bleeding began. “In a state of shock, I put a tourniquet on myself at the machine. The pain was terrible, and my attempt to stand up failed. The guys continued to keep contact with the enemy, and I passed on four to the evacuation point. It was the most difficult, because the injured leg was constantly clinging to something, and I almost lost consciousness because of the pain,” Stas recalls.
The soldiers were evacuated to the Dnipro. There, his condition was stabilized and he was sent to Lviv, to the NEZLAMNI center.
“The boy came to us with multifragmentary fractures of two bones of the lower leg and a penetrating bullet wound. Our first step was to heal the wound in order to perform reconstructive surgery on the greater tibia and avoid infection. At the same time, we performed an intervention for the reconstruction of the tibia and fixed it with an external fixation device,” Mykola Blindyuk, a traumatologist at the NEZLAMNI center, shares the story of the young patient.
Thanks to the team work of the doctors, the wound has healed well and the boy is already preparing for a major reconstructive operation, after which he will undergo long rehabilitation at the center. Stas is very positive and is recovering quickly, doctors say.
Hundreds of people suffer every day due to Russian aggression, so in order to make their treatment and rehabilitation comfortable and accessible in Ukraine, in Lviv, at the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center, a multidisciplinary team works with every Ukrainian, providing surgical, physical, psychological and psychosocial professional assistance . Thanks to the support of donors, a prosthetics workshop was opened and bionic prostheses are installed, as well as a new modern rehabilitation building was built: it is 7 floors with the most modern rehabilitation equipment. Every year, 10,000 Ukrainians will be able to receive help here.
Project website: https://unbroken.org.ua/.