"I want to think about the future. The past is painful. And I want to return to Ukraine," said Vadym after operations and treatment at the Sant'Eugenio hospital in the Italian capital.

He had arrived in Rome after suffering serious burns when trying to save his mother from the bombing. He was released from hospital on July 11 and will remain in the Italian capital to recover 100%. However, he wants to return to his country as soon as possible.

"I want to go back to Ukraine and do a cooking course," Vadym said while standing next to Lazio regional health councillor Alesso D'Amato.

"Now, however, I will stay in Rome a while to see a few more things than the hospital."

'I try to forget, I just want to think of nice things'

Vadym spoke with a smile next to the councillor and others -- with the smile of someone who has managed to survive but with emotion and pain in his eyes due to everything he has experienced. The 17-year-old told journalists that he did not remember what happened. "I try to forget, I just want to think of nice things. It is too painful to speak," he said.

The teenager arrived at the hospital on May 13 on an Italian financial guard flight after fleeing from a fire on a bus in which he had been travelling alongside his mother, who later died.Vadym arrived in Rome with 50% of his body burnt. He underwent two surgeries (on May 20 and June 13), with skin grafts. In the following days he began rehabilition.

"Today Vadym is being released in very good condition and can resume normal life," the local healthcare authority said. In this entire period, the Rome healthcare authority alongside the civil protection took care of the young Ukrainian's aunt and cousin, making a cultural mediator available to interpret in order to ensure proper assistance.

Now "Vadym will be hosted in a hotel with his family members for at least two or three weeks before returning to Ukraine," they said.

In six months, 84 Ukrainians treated by Rome's Sant'Eugenio

D'Amato thanked Sant'Eugenio for the work done. The regional councillor said that, "there was involvement of all those working in the sector," and that Vadym would not be left to his own devices.

"He will stay in Rome with his aunt and cousin for all the time necessary," he said.

Vadym was not the only one taken under Sant'Eugenio's wing. In six months the hospital hospitalised and treated 84 Ukrainian patients with only a 10.7% mortality rate. On Tuesday, two more refugees arrived at the hospital from Ukraine. They will undergo surgery on their hands.