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Dmytro Kulinich from Kryvyi Rih worked at the Yuvileyna mine before the war. Every day, he went underground to mine iron ore. When the man was mobilized into the army, he went to defend the country in Donetsk region.

Early May morning in the trench turned out to be unfortunate for the military man. During the fighting in Novomykhailivka region, Dmytro was wounded in the leg by a fragment of a tank shell. The man underwent surgery to amputate the right lower leg.

When he was in the hospital, the doctors advised the institution where Dmytro was supposed to get a prosthesis. The military man waited for prosthetics in Kyiv under the state programme for four months, but failed to get what was promised. During that time, he went for surgery twice, because the leg did not heal.

The specialists of the joint Saving Lives programme and the Prosthetics Support Project in Ukraine found Dmytro themselves and offered to help. A few days after talking with the specialists, he began treatment in Dnipro. They have made a cast of his leg and are making a training prosthesis. Also, as part of the project, the man is waiting for a rehabilitation programme in the west of Ukraine.

“They promise that in a week they will put me on my feet, and I will already be learning to walk. I am very grateful to the programme for the help!”, says Dmytro.