Dominika was a tragic civilian casualty of the Russian war in Ukraine. She died when Russian forces bombed the Mariupol hospital in which she was taking shelter, with her mother. They both suffered severe shrapnel wounds, and lay unburied in the basement of the hospital for months.
"At Zaporizhzhia's Children's Hospital, I came across one grief-stricken, inconsolable father whose family had been completely torn apart.
His daughter Natasha, who was 26, and his 4-year-old granddaughter Dominika, were killed when a Russian shell landed near the shelter where the whole family was seeking refugee from the bombardment of Mariupol.
"I looked at the ground and there lay my little granddaughter with her head completely torn to pieces," says Vladimir. "She lay there without a single breath and right next to her was my daughter with her legs fractured, open fractures.""
(source: BBC)
Dominika was a tragic civilian casualty of the Russian war in Ukraine. She died when Russian forces bombed the Mariupol hospital in which she was taking shelter, with her mother. They both suffered severe shrapnel wounds, and lay unburied in the basement of the hospital for months.
"At Zaporizhzhia's Children's Hospital, I came across one grief-stricken, inconsolable father whose family had been completely torn apart.
His daughter Natasha, who was 26, and his 4-year-old granddaughter Dominika, were killed when a Russian shell landed near the shelter where the whole family was seeking refugee from the bombardment of Mariupol.
"I looked at the ground and there lay my little granddaughter with her head completely torn to pieces," says Vladimir. "She lay there without a single breath and right next to her was my daughter with her legs fractured, open fractures.""
(source: BBC)
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