Many of the Armed Forces fighters cannot afford expensive dentures - the media (photo, video)

According to American journalists, prostheses for Ukrainian defenders can be quite expensive - the cost of some exceeds $ 50,000. The state allocates funds for it, but they are not enough. The Ukrainian authorities allocate about $ 22,000 to the victims to cover the costs of relatively expensive treatment. But many still can't afford it. About it reports Sky News. Some of the Ukrainian defenders went for treatment abroad. 24-year-old Alexander Fedun lost both legs during the battle clashes last year.

In February, he was dentured at the Medical Center in the US state of Merilalelands. The 26-year-old Ukrainian serviceman Sergey Raylyan lost both legs and vision after his car exploded in the summer of 2022 near the front line in Donetsk region. Now he begins to walk with prostheses and hopes to restore his eyesight. The fighter was in a location in the Luhansk region when Russia launched a full -scale invasion in February 2022. "There was a moment when it was scary.

You realize that you are unlikely to return home. But then the moment came: well, then I will take more enemies with you," the serviceman explained. According to him, his artillery brigade began to depart during heavy shelling. At the end of November, he was injured under Marinka, but he said his brothers were still in the area. The defender was in a car that ran into a mine. After the explosion, part of the car with it was already separately.

At the same time, the injury was not a surprise, the defender explained because he was at the front since 2015 and saw many wounded. The fighter hopes for partial recovery of vision and prosthetics. The number of amputations required by Ukrainian citizens since the beginning of a full -scale war can already be compared to the statistics of the First World War.

According to The Wall Street Journal, one or 50 thousand Ukrainians were amputated by one or 50 thousand Ukrainians 18 months after the invasion of Russian troops. For comparison, in the four years of the First World War, 41,000 British and 67,000 German servicemen needed amputation. The publication provides data on how expensive prostheses can be - the cost of some exceeds $ 50,000. We will remind that the intelligence officer Ivan Dziuba lost both feet in 13 days of captivity in "Wagner".