[AMP-L] Ukrainians Come to Minnesota for Prosthetics — and Hope

[Wayne Renardson]

via The Star Tribune:

A Ukrainian prosthetic limb specialist in Minneapolis sought a way to 
help amid despair over Russia's invasion. On the night war came, it 
felt like time stopped. Dr. Yakov "Jacob" Gradinar, who emigrated 
from Ukraine to the United States in 2007, couldn't keep his eyes off 
the news: Bombs, then more bombs. He called his parents in the 
western Ukrainian region of Transcarpathia. They told him bombs hit 
Lviv, only 120 miles away.  

Gradinar pleaded with his parents and four siblings to leave. But no: 
"This," they told him, "is ours."

Amid hopelessness, Gradinar prayed: How to help from half a world 
away? In time, an answer would come to the former orthopedic surgeon 
in Ukraine, now a prosthetic limb specialist in Minneapolis.

The rest of the story, with photo, here:

https://tinyurl.com/24yke7a6

Wayne R.