Superhumans! Wounded Ukrainians walking back to victory with the help of new rehab center

The Superhumans Center in Lviv aims to become Ukraine’s first venue for reconstruction surgeries by adding prosthetics and offering rehabilitation to those injured.

"My comrades carried me over to evacuation point, more than two kilometers from where I got injured. On the way there, a roller-coaster of emotions hit me. I was first crying, then hysterically laughing and cursing, I said goodbye to my comrades and sang our national anthem," Kryvenko recalls. Associate Producer based out of Washington, D.C. Bureau 

He is one of the first dozen patients undergoing rehabilitation at the Superhumans Center – a newly established medical center aiming to become Ukraine’s first venue for reconstruction surgeries. Until then, Superhumans provided prosthetics and rehabilitation services – something patients previously had to travel to Europe or the U.S. for.