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Marine corporal Alexander Kovalenko, who defended Mariupol and spent nearly seven months in Russian captivity, has received his own apartment. For his family, this is the first own housing provided under the charitable program “At Home.”
How the defender of Mariupol received his own apartment
Marine corporal Oleksandr Kovalenko, together with his wife and two children, received their first own apartment, according to the project “Heart of Azovstal.” Prior to this, the family did not have their own housing.
Oleksandr hails from Mykolaiv region and served in the military since 2015 year. At the start of the full-scale invasion, he voluntarily went to defend Mariupol. During one of his combat assignments, the service member was hit by a mortar shelling and sustained severe shrapnel wounds to his thigh and neck. Later, the defender ended up in Russian captivity, where he spent almost seven months.
After returning from captivity, Oleksandr underwent treatment and rehabilitation, and later he was discharged from military service due to health reasons. The family received the apartment through the charitable program “At Home,” implemented by the project “Heart of Azovstal” in cooperation with the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation.
How life changed for the veteran after returning from captivity
Because of his serious injuries, Oleksandr had to go through a long recovery path. After being discharged from the service, the serviceman gradually returns to civilian life.
Despite what he endured, Oleksandr wants to continue helping Ukrainian servicemen. He is considering the possibility of working as a driver of an evacuation vehicle to transport wounded comrades. Thus, the veteran plans to remain useful to those who continue to defend Ukraine.
As a reminder, more than 1 400 the internally displaced people from Mariupol have already received temporary housing in Dnipro and Chernivtsi. For other families, housing is being arranged in Kropyvnytskyi, and in Bila Tserkva, Kyiv region, with support from France, new apartments are planned to be built.
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