'This is not only a test of my character, but also an opportunity for me to support my fellow brothers who were seriously wounded.'
Georgiy Roshka and Oleksiy Rudenko are both running the London Marathon Two amputee Ukrainian soldiers are taking on the London Marathon because they want to show that Ukrainians are ‘unbreakable’. Active Ukrainian serviceman Georgiy Roshka, 32, had his arm amputated in a bunker during the siege of Azovstal, while fellow soldier Oleksiy Rudenko, 28, lost his leg after he stepped on a mine during a combat mission in eastern Ukraine.
‘When the arm was amputated in Azovstal the conditions were really bad and I couldn’t properly treat it there and in captivity I didn’t get good healthcare so the arm started to rot.’ Mr Rudenko said he aims to spread awareness and raise funds for seriously injured Ukrainian servicemen Mr Roshka was taken prisoner from the Azovstal Steel Works in Mariupol Mr Roshka went through ‘a hard path of recovery, prosthetics, and rehabilitation’ in Ukraine before returning to military service.
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