"I hope they didn't mean to hurt me." These heartbreaking words of the nine-year-old Ukrainian from the hospital in Irpin, where she is recovering, cannot leave anyone unmoved.
Little Sasha[/B] had fled with her parents from their home in Khostomel, west of Kiev, to escape Putin's bombs.
However, the car they were riding in was hit by Russian shells.
The Russian fire killed her father, while she was seriously wounded in the arm. Doctors had to amputate most of her left arm, but the little girl is now recovering.
As the British newspaper Daily Mail reports, the doctors who operated on her had no choice.[/B]
Speaking from her bed in the hospital, Sasha told reporters. I hope it was an accident and they didn't want to hurt me. When they hit us, I got out of the car and ran after my sister. My mom ran over me. I thought it was the end. But luckily my mom wasn't dead, she just rushed to protect me from the gunshots. That's when I lost consciousness. Someone carried me to a cellar. They gave me medicine there. And then someone carried me with a towel to the hospital."
At Irpin's hospital, "Bucha", it was vascular surgeon Dr. Vladislav Gorbovets who first found that, because of gangrene, she had to amputate her left arm above the elbow. "Otherwise, Sasha would have died," as she says.
Source: Proto Thema
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