27-year-old Oleksa Klyuk from Lviv went to war after the death of his best friend. He was seriously injured and almost lost his leg. Five months of operations and treatment immobilized the defender’s limbs. But the specialists of the National Rehabilitation Center NEZLAMNI in Lviv helped him get back on his feet.
Oleksa is a private entrepreneur from Lviv. At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, his closest comrade was killed in the war. Oleksa struggled with the loss, but already in April 2022 he joined the ranks of the amphibious assault brigade.
The man was seriously wounded on the penultimate day of 2022 – during an assault on enemy positions. He recalls: they disembarked from heavy equipment, the Russians noticed them and began to cover them with mortar fire. One of the mines survived nearby, and its debris tore the soldier’s right leg. Aleksa put a tourniquet on himself. He remembers that at that moment he thought about only one thing: anything should survive for the sake of his relatives.
Comrades evacuated the wounded to the nearest stabilization point. Next – Kramatorsk, Dnipro and Lviv. Doctors fought for a long time to save the defender’s right leg, performed a number of complex operations and, in the end, amputation was avoided. However, for five months of treatment, Oleksa did not get back on his feet. His muscles atrophied.
In order to teach the defender to walk again, he was directed to the NEZLAMNI center. For a month, Oleksa engaged in physical rehabilitation every day. This is what he says about his successes: “Although a short period of time has passed, there is already an improvement. Physical therapists have helped me a lot. I can stand now! It’s so cool when you can stand up and see the world from your height. My physical condition has improved, I feel more strength in my legs.”
The defender has yet another reconstructive operation on his leg – installation of an artificial bone. And then rehabilitation again.
After recovery, Oleksa dreams of taking a walk in his native Lviv – as he loved to do once, before the Great War. And then he wants to return to the front line to liberate all Ukrainian lands together with our other defenders.
Hundreds of people suffer every day due to Russian aggression, therefore, 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: it is 7 floors with the most modern rehabilitation equipment. Every year, 10,000 Ukrainians will be able to receive help here.