A plaster on his eye, eight-year-old Dima Kasyanov lies unconscious on a hospital bed in Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv after a Russian missile blasted through his home.
KHARKIV, Ukraine — He was in his family flat when it hit on Monday, sending shrapnel shooting through his upper jaw and into the base of his neck, his doctor Oleksandre Dukhovsky says.
“But he is stable. Slowly we are getting there,” says the surgeon, as he emerges from operating on another, a 52-year-old man. The UN children’s agency UNICEF has warned the war threatens the lives and well-being of the country’s 7.5 million children. In the eastern city of Kharkiv near the Russian border, a nurse checks Dima’s vitals on a screen near his bed.Outside the intensive care unit, his parents Sergei and Olena have managed to bring in medicine, as medical supplies dwindle nationwide.In what remains of the family home, part of the floor has collapsed and the rest is covered in debris.Several other apartments in the ten-storey Soviet-era building were also destroyed, an AFP journalist said.
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