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One-year-old child sustains shrapnel wounds in Chornobaivka after Russian attack

Wednesday, 1 March 2023, 17:14

Russian forces attacked Chornobaivka in Kherson Oblast, injuring a one-year-old child.

Source: Kherson Oblast State Administration 

Details: Invaders deployed artillery to shell the settlement. Russians targeted a house of civilians, the Oblast State Administration stressed. 

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A projectile hit the windows in the nursery, and it injured the baby with glass fragments. Fortunately, the munition did not detonate.

 Screenshot from the video

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Quote: "An ambulance took the baby to the hospital so that doctors could save his life.

The boy is in a serious condition; glass fragments have injured his ears and face," the Oblast State Administration reported.

Currently, the lives and health of the boy and his mother are not in danger, but they will stay in the hospital for several days.

According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, 461 children have been killed in Ukraine since the beginning of a full-scale war in Ukraine, and 927 have been injured.

Background: Doctors recently saved a teenager from Bakhmut who was hit in the chest by a shell fragment that got stuck in his heart.

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