Miraculous escape of a Ukrainian boy… The bullet grazed his spine

One year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the painful dimension of the war continues to appear in the press. Eventually, the story of a 16-year-old’s injury caught the attention of both the press and the medical world. The boy’s injury was published in the American Journal of Case Reports by doctors at Pirogov Memorial National Medical University.

The 16-year-old civilian victim, whose name has not been released, was shot in the neck with a Soviet-made pistol. The doctors, looking at the gunshot wound, stated that they assumed that the boy had been shot about 15 cm from the Makarov pistol.

He saw the 9mm bullet enter the neck, grazed the end of the spine, and lodged in the upper jaw. The teenager was taken to a hospital in the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia. The left side of the child’s face and neck are swollen; Due to the damage to his spinal cord, he couldn’t open his mouth fully and couldn’t raise his left arm.

MIRACLE Liberation

During surgery, doctors made an incision in the lower part of his chin, dissecting the soft tissue in the area and removing the bullet casing from the skull.

They then treated the area and stitched up the wound. The boy was discharged from the hospital nine days after the operation. And he surprisingly he made a full recovery.

MORE THAN 100 THOUSAND LOSSES OF CIVILIAN LIVES

Although it is not stated in the report that a Russian soldier was injured by his weapon, there are many reports that the Russian military killed civilians, including children, during the war. According to Ukraine’s top war crimes prosecutor, more than 100,000 Ukrainian civilians died during the Russian occupation. This shows that the actual loss is well above the official death toll of 8,000.

The siege of the port city of Mariupol alone is believed to have killed more than 10,000 Ukrainian civilians.

Meanwhile, losses in Russia are estimated at 200 thousand. Even last week, Vladimir Putin condemned the International Criminal Court’s decision to issue an arrest warrant for him for war crimes in Ukraine.

An arrest warrant was also issued for Russia’s ‘Children’s Rights Commissioner’ Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova on the same charges.

RUSSIA CONFIRMED, UKRAINE CONTINUED WITH THE CLAIMS: “THEY GAVE US THE ADDRESS”

The Kremlin said the court’s arrest warrant was outrageous and unacceptable.

ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan said hundreds of Ukrainian children were also taken from orphanages and orphanages to Russia: “We affirm that many of these children have since been adopted in the Russian Federation.”