Iuliia Mendel: Western prosthetics fills the gap in a war-torn Ukraine
This photo taken on March 30, 2016 shows young members of the Patriot club walking in front of the Donetsk Arena. Youth movements are only one example among many of this infatuation with the Soviet past.
Vadym Maznichenko, a 30-year-old construction worker, lived a regular life in the suburbs of Kyiv, when in summer 2014 he was drafted to war in eastern Ukraine. He returned after several months having lost his leg and hand. He could not then get a prosthetic hand in his native Ukraine and he laughs loudly when I ask about the artificial leg the state provided him.
