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When doctors told Yulia Lyakisheva that the prognosis was not favorable, she asked her mother to take her back home to the Donetsk region. The woman decided to continue treatment in her hometown. Yulia shared the story of her struggle and victory with the Museum of Peaceful Voices, the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation said on its site.
Yulia Lyakisheva was born and lived all her life in Kostyantynivka, the story says, and it has entered the museum's collection. At four years old she survived clinical death after a car accident when she was hit by a motorcyclist. After that she had health problems.
After the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, she moved to Kyiv with her mother and sister. There she was diagnosed with cancer. Her condition worsened significantly; she weighed 38 kg and could hardly walk.
"Doctors said: 'She has only a few months left. We advise placing her in hospice so you don’t have to see her, or bring her home.' I then told my mother that Yulia asked us to take her home. So let's fulfill this one of her dreams," says Olena Tyutyunik, Yulia's sister.
According to the Foundation, the family decided to return to Kostyantynivka. There the woman began to feel better, gradually regained the ability to walk and eat, and also gained weight.
"It is true what they say: home is where healing happens. I came home — I lay there for two or three months. Then I started walking a little, like a turtle — there and back. Then I started to feel a little better. Yes, there there was shelling, drones were flying constantly. But I did not care about that, because I wanted to be at home more. It was precisely at home that I began to recover. And after four months I even rode a bicycle! Now 2026 year has passed, and I am still alive," Lyakishova said.
Later in Kostyantynivka, together with an acquaintance, she came under fire. The man died, and she sustained a concussion and injuries to her arm and leg, but she managed to reach the servicemen on her own.
"The explosion was on my side, and the shrapnel flew toward him. It's a miracle that I survived, that I was only wounded in the arm and leg," Yulia recalled.
After the injury, the woman nearly lost the mobility of her arm, the article says. After surgery a fixator was installed, but the bone did not knit. The Rinat Akhmetov Foundation provided Yulia with an implant for osteosynthesis of the elbow bone and the necessary medications.
Now Lyakishova is undergoing rehabilitation and gradually regaining mobility in her arm.
"I am so happy that the Foundation helped me, that my arm was saved. I was very worried that it would not function, but everything took root and there is progress," the woman says.
Now she lives with her family in the Poltava region, the Foundation noted.
"In this house there are 12 of us. This is our large family — fellow villagers who had nowhere to go; they asked to come to us, and we gave them shelter. I want there to be love everywhere, peace, and fewer people who are cruel," says Lyubov Mykolaivna, Yulia's mother.
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