Though doctors couldn't save her leg, she was fitted with a prosthetic and underwent a four-month rehabilitation course where she learnt to walk again. Oleksandra spent more than two weeks in intensive care, where she was treated for her injured leg as well as a fractured arm, broken ribs and a head injury, Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform said. Oleksandra Paskal, seven, suffered multiple injuries and became trapped under rubble when a recreation centre came under fire in May last year. In May, a video circulated on social media showing a couple spending their first minutes of married life in a bomb shelter in Kyiv during an air alert.Ī young Ukrainian girl who lost her leg in an attack on the country's southern Odesa region last year won a gold medal at her first gymnastics competition after overcoming her injury. They aren't the only couple to have tied the knot with the threat of attack looming over them, with many others not allowing the war to put a stop to their nuptials. "There's a place for love, for kindness, for warmth" in Ukraine, Anton said on their wedding day. They fell in love while volunteering on the ground and soon decided to get married. We want to shine a light on some of these as the war continues in this regular feature.Īnastasiya and Anton held their wedding in a metro station in Kharkiv city, which was serving as a bomb shelter during the early weeks of the war.
Tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides have died, civilians have been killed and injured in Russian attacks on Ukrainian territory and many have had to flee their homes due to the threat of shelling and missile strikes.īut Ukrainians have remained resilient during the war as the country defends itself against Moscow's invasion - and some stories of hope have even emerged from the anguish. The war in Ukraine has been raging for almost 17 months.
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