Ukrainian Groom Carries Bride Who Lost Legs In Explosion For First Dance [Watch]

A Ukrainian nurse, who lost both her legs in a landmine explosion, shared an emotional first dance with her husband after marrying him within the walls of a hospital.

The groom, Victor, was captured holding his bride, Oksana, in his arms as they danced in the hospital ward.

Oksana, a 23-year-old nurse from the eastern city of Lysychansk, was going back home with Victor when “a Russian mine exploded” underneath her on March 27, the Ukrainian Parliament wrote on social media.

The couple was walking “on a familiar path,” and Oksana had turned to warn Victor about the impending danger just seconds before the mine exploded, the First Medical Association of Lviv said, according to Sky News.

Victor miraculously survived the explosion while Oksana lost both of her legs as well as four fingers on her left hand. After undergoing four operations, Oksana was evacuated to Dnipro, where she continued to heal. The couple arrived in Lviv by evacuation train last week and prepared to get married in a hospital.

"Life should not be postponed until later, decided Oksana and Victor, who in six years together never found time for marriage," the medical association said, according to the outlet.

The couple, who are parents to two children, arranged a wedding dress for Oksana and bought wedding rings after arriving in Lviv. Volunteers also baked a cake for the couple, according to a Storyful report on Yahoo News.

Oksana and Victor officially took each other as husband and wife and had their wedding celebration in the ward of a surgery center.

“Congratulations to our patient Oksana on marriage and wish her to complete treatment and rehabilitation as soon as possible!” the association wrote on Facebook.

Footage of their first dance was released by the medical association and also shared on Twitter by the Ukrainian Parliament, which said: "The couple got married in a Lviv hospital, where the woman is preparing for prosthetic surgery. We wish the young couple happiness and long years together."

Oksana's limbs were prepared for prosthetics before she tied the knot. The newlyweds will be traveling to Germany so that Oksana can receive further treatment, the medical association told Sky News.