Ukrainian mother and daughter who lost their legs in train station attack learn to walk again

Natalia Stepanenko, 43, and Yana, 11, were caught in the Russian shell attack on Kramatorsk railway station on April 8, but thanks to Peter Harsch Prosthetics they can walk again

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Ukraine. Civilians killed after missile strike on Kramatorsk railway station

A mother and child who both lost their legs in a missile strike at a train station in Ukraine can now walk again.

Natalia Stepanenko, 43, and Yana, 11, were caught in the April 8 Kramatorsk train station shell attack that killed 59 people, including seven children.

100 other people were injured.

But miraculously, thanks to innovative prostheses made in the USA, mother and daughter are on the move again.

Natalia lost a leg below the knee and Yana lost both legs, as the couple spent several months in Lviv Children's Hospital in St. Nicholas.

They were then flown to California in July, thanks to The Right to Walk Foundation which helps amputees.

Along with Yana's twin brother, Yaroslav, they spent a year in Mira Mesa, San Diego, in rehab with Peter Harsch Prosthetics.

Ukrainian mother Natalia Stepanenko sits in a wheelchair after losing part of her left leg (

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Peter Harsch told ABC News 10, "The blast wounds are scattering shrapnel, rocks and dirt, and what we have with Yana and her mother is that we have limbs which were torn off in a very traumatic way.

"The objective of surgeons [and] doctors at the time was simply to save their lives, so there is a small detail that has been overlooked."

A few days after her arrival, Yana took her first steps on July 30.

The Foundation for the Right to Walk wrote on Facebook: "I can't believe that Yana, suffering from such traumatic amputations and bone regrowth issues, recovered so quickly."