Ukrainian nurse who lost both legs in landmine blast shares first dance with husband | WATCH
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A Ukrainian nurse who lost both her legs in a landmine explosion shared her first dance with her husband. A video of the heartwarming moment has been shared several times on social media.
In a hospital ward in Lviv, newlyweds Oksana Balandina and Viktor Vasyliv, are finally sharing their first wedding dance.
For the couple, both 23 years old, this is a moment that almost never happened.
Very special lovestory.A nurse from Lysychansk, who has lost both legs on a russian mine, got married in Lviv. On March 27, Victor and Oksana were coming back home, when a russian mine exploded. The man was not injured, but Oksana's both legs were torn off by the explosion. pic.twitter.com/X1AQNwKwyu
On March 27, a little over a month after Russia invaded Ukraine, as the couple was walking home in Lysychansk in Ukraine's Luhansk region, Balandina stumbled upon an unexploded mine.
“I only managed to shout to him: “Honey, look!” He looked at me when the mine exploded. I fell down with my face on the ground. There was an extreme noise in my head. Then I turned around and I started to tear off clothing on me. I thought it would be easier to breathe because there was not enough air for me," Balandina recalled.
