Stepanenko, 12, navigated cobblestones with her new running prostheses for 70 meters of the city’s half marathon.
“I’ve only recently got running prostheses,” she told Lviv city council, according to media reports. “So I’m just learning to run, a little scared because I’m not used to it yet. I want to support children who have also lost their legs and cannot run. I want them to see what I’m doing and say to themselves, ‘Yes! I can do it, too! I can run too.’”, it was interrupted only by the full-scale invasion in 2022.
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