"In the evacu was holding his hand on his chest so as not to lose": The Armed Forces fighter told about the battle in Donetsk region

32-year-old Alexei Dernov from Znamyanka, Kirovograd region. Prior to a full -scale war, he worked as an electric locomotive driver at Ukrzaliznytsia, was engaged in fencing and admired medieval fights. On February 24, 2024 he was going on a flight, and within a few days he volunteered to the front. In 2023, Alexei fought in the 37th Separate Marine Infantry Brigade, and in the summer of that year he suffered serious injuries as a result of enemy artobrach and lost his hand.

It happened in Donetsk region. According to him, that day, he went to the task in a group of 5 people, but the group was ambushed, and they covered two machine gun calculations. There was a fight, in the first minutes of which four soldiers from the group were injured, including Alexey. He noted that the wound was uncritical, so he continued the fight. "Half an hour passed, and we were in landing ten meters without trees. At the same time I felt something pushed forward. I fell but not fainted.

I looked at the hand - it hangs almost torn. I think. Alexei told. He added that when he was pulled into the trench, he saw that his hand was just lying side by side. "The boys were wrapped up, and while I was driving on an evacu, keeping her on my chest so as not to lose. I was hoping for her to be sewn. Before I lost consciousness, already at a stabilization point, the doctor said:" Well done, That he brought his hand and properly kept it, may be sewn.

He says that he had already come to the hospital in Zaporozhye. He looked at his hand - she was not. The left leg was torn as a result of the explosion, but the fighter was told that the leg may also be amputated. However, fortunately, the leg managed to save, however, she does not bend in the foot now. "I, as soon as it happened, was engaged in a gym every day, learned to walk again, went out of the strolle on a crutch and gradually left my leg. For two months I was lying.

From the moment of injury and before I started walking on crutches, four passed. months. , - says Alexei Dernov. Back in the hospital, the man decided that he would be prosthetic, so he applied in several instances. He did not have to wait long and he was offered prosthetics in the United States. "I spent 5 weeks in the states, it is together with rehabilitation. But you will never get used to you. Sometimes I have phantom pain or feeling that two hands grow from one place.

The main thing is to learn to control my muscles. Now I I can squeeze the brush and turn it left. According to him, the most difficult for those who are left without feet and move in a wheelchair. Because, according to him, in Ukrainian society, nothing is adapted for such people - rapids, stairs, public transport. Although the man was not able to become a driver again, but returned to his depot, where he was preserved. He now embraces the profession of technologist.