After rescuing the woman, FFU provided her with further treatment.
On March 13, in the village of Makariv in the Kyiv region, Olga Yakovleva was seriously injured during a tank shelling by russian soldiers.
In peacetime, Olya created video content for international brands and performers at Radioaktive Film Production Studio. On the first day of the russian invasion, February 24, Olga and her husband decided to leave Kyiv for their home in Makariv. They thought that it would be safer there. For several weeks, the couple hid under enemy fire.
That unfortunate morning, Olga's husband heard an explosion. He saw the three-layer glass in the door shatter and managed to bounce back. The man noticed smoke from the room where Olya had been with the dogs. A russian tank fired at their house.
The outer west wall of the first floor was almost destroyed. Olga was under the interior door that flew out of the bathroom. A dog next to her had taken on the explosion wave and looked blankly out of the dog's paradise.
Despite multiple shrapnel wounds, Olga muttered something unconsciously. The man pulled her out from under the wreckage, put the tire on her broken arm, and bandaged her head as best he could. He wrapped Olya in the first found jacket and pulled her out of the house to the nearest funnel.
They had six transfers through forests and bombed-out roads to the first medical center 40 km away. The military doctor removed coarse fragments from Olya's head without anesthesia. Then her husband took Olya to a hospital in Zhytomyr, where doctors diagnosed a fracture of the first and second cervical vertebrae, multiple fractures of the head and body, and a fracture of the arm with displacement. But the skull suffered the most — sepsis began due to multiple debris injuries. For two weeks, doctors did everything possible to stabilize Olga's condition to start the necessary surgery.
Olga is currently in hospital in Kyiv, where she has already undergone the necessary surgery on her forearm. She will have several more complex operations and a long-term rehabilitation course, which the Future for Ukraine team has undertaken to provide.
