Denys Kryvenko was among Ukrainian soldiers retreating from the eastern city of Bakhmut in October when Russian shells hit.
The 24-year-old woke up in hospital with a missing arm and leg: glad to be alive but unsure if he would ever walk again.
Ottobock specialists are using cases like his to train Ukrainian technicians on constructing limbs and using their products for victims of the war that has left thousands with fractures, amputations and spinal cord injuries. "There really is a shortage of prosthetists, because there are a huge number of people requiring prosthetic treatment coming in every day," Health Minister Viktor Liashko told Reuters in a recent interview.In the fifth such course run by Ottobock since the start of the war, the Ukrainians spent three weeks learning how to make different types of prosthetics and to rehabilitate amputees.
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