Ukrainian boy who lost legs in grenade blast walking again in Montreal

Image Courtesy of CTV News
Image Courtesy of CTV News

By CTV News, May 20, 2016 

A boy whose legs and right arm were blown off when he stepped on a grenade in eastern Ukraine is once again walking unaided, thanks to a Canadian humanitarian mission and a hospital in Montreal.

Mykola Nyzhnykovskyi, now 12, was playing with his four-year-old brother Danyo and a few friends in a field in his village in Donetsk last August, when they came across the rocket-propelled grenade.

A friend pushed Mykola toward the device and he stepped on it. Danyo was killed in the blast.

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