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Margaryta Chornokondratenko

Ukrainian nurse who lost both legs dances with new husband, vows to keep living

Newlyweds Oksana Balandina and Viktor Vasyliv shared their first wedding dance in a hospital ward in Lviv, in western Ukraine.

The groom lifted his wife up in his arms and turned her around between the hospital beds, as she put one arm around his neck and held a bandaged hand to his chest.

It is a moment the 23-year-olds thought they would never share, after Balandina lost both her legs weeks earlier when a landmine exploded on March 27, a little over a month after Russia invaded, as the couple walked home in Lysychansk in Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region.

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