They're tools, but they're not advancing him beyond what he lost," says Corcoran, leaning over a workbench covered in prosthetic feet. "We're giving them the equipment to live a normal life. "The goal is to give him his life back," says Mike Corcoran, one of the founders of MCOP, and a prosthetics for over 30 years. United Help Ukraine is paying for lodging, transportation and support Medical Center Orthotics and Prosthetics (MCOP) is fitting the prostheses and training him.Įric Lee for NPR Jamie Vandersea, upper extremity prosthetics specialist, adjusts the sensitivity of sensors on a socket that Ukrainian soldier Roman Rodionov is wearing. An array of charities paid for his trip: the Future for Ukraine and Revive Soldier Ukraine got him to the U.S. "Life doesn't stop at this," says Fedun, standing on two high-tech, full-leg prostheses, as he tries to stay upright while passing a medicine ball back and forth with his physical therapist in Silver Spring, Md.Įight months after his injury, Fedun was flown here to get fitted for the legs and learn to use them. Ukrainian medics saved him, but he lost both legs above the knee. Then he started tying tourniquets on himself. When he felt the explosion, Fedun says, he managed to swerve and block the road so none of his fellow soldiers would drive on into the mines.
He was driving the first truck in a convoy. "The enemy reconnaissance did their job and they mined the roads," he says. Oleksandr Fedun had been in the Ukrainian army for two years when he got hit last May.
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