Ukrainian war amputees find healing and support at Minnesota clinic

A prosthetics clinic in Oakdale, Minnesota is helping soldiers from Ukraine who have lost limbs due to Russian attacks. The 12th group just arrived to seek treatment.
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[@TreasureHuntingNana]

Thank you for helping these people. So sad to see the children involved.

[@MegsCarpentry-lovedogs]

This is an amazing story! Thank you for all who put it together and all who are helping these Ukraine warriors. 💝🇨🇦 💪🇺🇦 💙🇺🇦💛

[@jackjacobson3893]

As someone from Minnesota welcome to our culture we will always help and protect those in need ❤❤❤

[@MegsCarpentry-lovedogs]

@@jackjacobson3893 👍😊 🙏🇨🇦

[@arselenebitara1356]

Thank you unsung heroes of Ukraine wherever you are.

[@serafinasantiago4947]

You’re a joke 😂

[@dm32904]

bandera and samchuk

[@Evolsieh]

I would love to volunteer for some organisation like this. ❤working in rehab in Australia for over 20 years cannot stop to feel amazed seeing how strong Ukrainians are.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@Mlmv266]

Thank you for giving the soldiers the love , respect and care they need . They know they are not alone in their fight🙏

[@marcomoreno9979]

Thank you for doing this. Slava Ukraini

[@theoneduckson2312]

It's nice to know that our state is helping individuals who have lost limbs defending their nation. Genuinely brings a tear to my eye 🥺

[@dm32904]

what about helping american people

[@wswift7611]

This is more than love and cares for those heroic fighters who fought for freedom and their beloved country, Ukraine. They all need caring hearts

[@christinemcclymont269]

Thank you, your family and helpers for your superlative humanity.

[@virginiaoflaherty2983]

Thanks Scripps News for uploading this story. I am going to send a donation. I wish I could send a big amount because no amount is big enough to show appreciation to the Protez Foundation for what they do for these men. Giving people a normal life again. Glory to Ukraine Glory to Heroes.

[@svetlanautebalieva9579]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🇺🇦❤

[@edthecatman6554]

God bless these people ❤

[@dm32904]

god pay for them too

[@DaveFL5656]

Slava Ukraine from Florida

[@johnfrey1500]

God Bless Minnesota helping them GOD BLESS UKRAINE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@margaretlamb2432]

God bless these brave people 🙏🇺🇦💙💛❤️💕

[@hablah5015]

Wow this act courage brave God bless..

[@CindyKalbakdalen-zs9us]

God bless our people that live a humanitarian environment!

[@mussydesign7933]

this is so sad such young lads 😢

[@debracorneliuson5978]

They are heros!!!! SLAVA UKRAINE ❤🇺🇦🇨🇦🙏🇨🇦🇺🇦❤

[@serafinasantiago4947]

What a joke 😂

[@alhambrabiker1476]

@@serafinasantiago4947Russian ship Moskva ПНХ. Second best army? What a joke.

[@svetlanautebalieva9579]

Героям слава !!!!!!🇺🇦❤

[@nicholasgrossman3194]

They are not heroes

[@rubenrojas8632]

Slava ukraine 🇺🇦 ♥️ Thank you God.

[@serafinasantiago4947]

Yeh thank you god for the amputees 😂 oh boy

[@alhambrabiker1476]

@@serafinasantiago4947ussian bot ПНХ

[@marsoneymayers1786]

Nice to see helping hands. To those in need. Keep helping, good hands 🙌

[@eugene9972]

Thank you for your service here and abroad, once a soldier, always a soldier, no matter what....U.S. Army (Ret)

[@MrVince8]

Great organization.

[@jannwernecke7563]

God bless you! Thank those men for fighting this battle for ALL OF US!!

[@Spiritofaconure]

Good, we should help as many of these men and women as we can with surgeries and recovery after trauma, wow what a horrifying thing war is, rarely does a war ever even fix a problem but obviously Ukraine had no choice in the matter I’m glad Zelenskyy is still doing well, and I hope he remains safe and my prayers go out to everyone, I love stuff like this because it gives them a somewhat normal life and freedom, and we need more people In the world like this

[@donnacollins1356]

Thank you Minnesota for supporting Ukraine It makes me proud that the US is helping and showing much compassion for these brave Ukrainians Glory to Ukraine 💙💛🌻

[@Thomas-jq1qz]

The US had an opportunity to stop the war before it started.. Now pretending to be humane when Ukrainians have lost their limbs is hypocricy

[@serafinasantiago4947]

How humble 😂 they ain’t sending their sons to fight but use yours for their wars

[@Thomas-jq1qz]

@@serafinasantiago4947 Russia sends strong men to fight in Ukraine,, it will be a mistake if they send pregnant women

[@alhambrabiker1476]

@@serafinasantiago4947Russian troll ПНХ

[@paintballusa1658]

They are Heroes 👍🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@tezinray8497]

Glad bless you all💐🙏🏽🙏🏽💐

[@CindyKalbakdalen-zs9us]

This will only improve the limbs of the future. I have seen in the past so many prosthetics that hurt the individual! Brilliannt!

[@dionisiohalog6281]

Excellent help...

[@garedvasoli7692]

God bless you! 💕🙏

[@mayfirst318]

Thanks for helping our Heroes!

[@serafinasantiago4947]

You are fighting their war 😂

[@mayfirst318]

@serafinasantiago4947 Every normal person should fight dictatorship and fascism! Putler started war, destroying Ukraine, killing thousands. We must stop him!

[@salomevalenzuela3937]

Yes They Are HEROES n UKRAINENN🙏🇺🇦🤞😘❤

[@mikekearney485]

Amen "Slava Ukraine"

[@sarashattuck4022]

Show love and care ❤️

[@adrianceasar5620]

such a big tragedy so many life distroy

[@serafinasantiago4947]

Self inflicted

[@alhambrabiker1476]

@@serafinasantiago4947Russian bot ПНХ

[@samuelculper4231]

Going back to the front lines. Wow

[@brandimcintyre18]

Amazing work love it god bless you and them ❤️

[@samuelculper4231]

Love it 🇺🇦🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸

[@serafinasantiago4947]

I love it too 😂 the more amputees, the less resistance

[@alhambrabiker1476]

@@serafinasantiago4947Russian bot ПНХ

[@NaztyGamingHD]

How old is that kid without an arm😢

[@AnyTwoWillD0]

Another Ukrainian heroes! Thank you ❤

[@yy-lv3to]

🙏🙏🙏

[@user-le3vg3hh9q]

God bless u

[@calvinduke4810]

🇺🇦🇺🇲🇺🇦🇺🇲

[@mr.pizzamarlon]

There's nothing "super" about this but extremely sad. *There are no winners in war.* We will see even more [fearful sights] before the end comes. 🚀☠️☠️☠️☠️🔥

[@alaska3300]

Getting better care then US military.

[@shadowdemonxxx2972]

What

[@johnfleming8648]

I feel so sorry for amputees...

[@christinemcclymont269]

They don't want your pity. Try showing support and admiration.

[@dunesurfermt5004]

great story.

[@bebo7537]

Brilliant.

[@maxik7929]

Эти герои обезвредили русские мины! Одна нога - одна мтна😊

[@redequal7457]

War is so crazy. Why? We are humans. Why?

[@nuniezjorge]

And back to the battlefield because in Ukraine there's no veteran benefit program

[@wadopotato33]

They go back to the battlefield because they believe in the fight...duh

[@nuniezjorge]

They have no other option, even the trans are sent to the front, no matter how they identify

[@wadopotato33]

@@nuniezjorge The kind of statement that makes you look ignorant....and yet, you feel you are being clever. Wrong on so many levels. You appear dumb to anyone unlucky enough to read your comments.

[@veridian79]

Some go back, because they can and believe in their cause. They are not made to go back.

[@pantherowow77]

Heroes helping heroes

[@luisrivera3056]

Great to see their stories of victory, victory in life and soon victory in war. Slava Ukraine and Glory to the heroes!

[@V1ENYA]

Взрывы, пули, мины. Без ног не поскачешь, без рук не позигуешь. А без головы скажешь Слава Украине!

[@dm32904]

be nice if US veterans got the care

[@peterregorsek1504]

If they would have smart and adult politicians, they had both legs also today. You cannot a play a war with a successor of the USSR. You have to sign an agreement!

[@kala30124]

Tell your president to negotiate.and what are you doing in Us

[@larrybarrett5810]

Name

[@isacdafack5356]

🤣🤣🤣 but they saying they kil thousands of russian 🤣🤣🤣

[@johnsmith3716]

Hahaha 🤣😂

[@Thomas-jq1qz]

Pretence

[@zmax683]

You lost your feet for monopoly man.

[@gforce0311]

🇺🇲🇺🇦💪

[@menya00045]

that is a nice propaganda video.. god bless all.

[@HilarityBribo]

Couldnt even imagine losing a leg or even your life fighting for the obiden crime family and puppetlenskyy.

[@commonsense3632]

Nice, My American veteran dad died after his surgery was bumped from one of these so called hero murderess of corruption!!!!

[@yenpham-jb4wo]

I can tell your not American because we don’t speak like that.

[@pantherowow77]

I can't even understand what you were trying to say.

[@starlightbarking9495]

They are not having surgery in the USA, they are having prosthetics fitted. Do you realise how silly your comment makes you look.

[@tomipiriyev]

theatre ,

[@yenpham-jb4wo]

This war needs to stop. Compromise if necessary

[@wadopotato33]

How can there be compromise when they were invaded? Should Ukraine have to give up land to a brutal dictator. If it was the US would you allow a foreign country keep California...or Florida? Be realistic, maybe think about how this would be if it was your country.

[@arselenebitara1356]

​@@wadopotato33true. I throw similar question to those who give comments like this but as expected, no answer.

[@wadopotato33]

@@arselenebitara1356 Exactly, because some people want to show they have empathy, but true empathy comes from being able to put yourself in another's shoes and not by pretending that you just care. It would be different if it was the US and they had relatives in California...or perhaps even lived there. Most people that are like this I find are also either fake AF, or they really just don't understand the situation fully. Utopian ideals are not pragmatic and they are rarely useful in the real world. What is useful in this situation is to stand up to Russia so they don't or can't soon repeat this atrocity. The other reader would like to comprise and placate, but that approach was already tried with Germany in WW2. It is an approach that does not work with dictators. What they understand is force. Russia got away with Georgia, Chechnya, South Ossetia, and Crimea to name a few. It is obvious that it would continue unabetted. The other reader has to understand that her idea is placation and as such would only lead to another country and another country, etc. More bloodshed, not less. In other words, she is historically naive and doesn't really understand how the world works. If she was allowed to see her dumb idea implemeted more people would die. People are dying now, but the fastest way out of this blooshed is a disabled Russia. They see themselves as an Empire, but to be an Empire you have to have other nations under your yoke. During Soviet times the Russians subjegated 180 million people and stole their wealth. It was a great evil, to everyone who did not want to be part of that evil empire, but had no choice. Ask a Polish person if they want to go back to those times. And Russia fought with the Nazis to divide Poland before they fought against the Nazis.

[@arselenebitara1356]

@@wadopotato33 absolutely agree again with you. Included in here,of course, are the appeasers and apologists.

[@veridian79]

And if a perpetrator knocked your door down and did harm to your family , would you call the cops or just hand your house and possessions over and walk away. Freedom has to be fought for and it costs.

[@NR-nf1il]

The medical services free as the American taxpayer is footing the bill.

[@veridian79]

Paid for by voluntary donations.

[@valhala56]

I'm glad these guys are getting help, it should be our government paying for this as they are the ones who want to prosecute this war to the last Ukrainian. This war could be stopped if they want to, neogations.

[@rahimamin4967]

This is not helping, its a discrimination of other Nations!!!😂😂😂😂😂

[@rahimamin4967]

Why the Palestinians are excluded? The Afrikans....., or Haïti!!!!

[@guardiandemonx7936]

cuz they are not white lol

[@Hindukushsailing]

Will they give a neddy American a free 210000 USD state of the art Prosthetic????

[@veridian79]

This is all paid for by donations.

[@mayfirst318]

💛💛💛💙💙💙

[@christophwaltz8919]

Dont forget irak, Syrie Afghanistan, yemen etc.

[@notvaxed]

Those are some pretty sad-looking Nazis