The first images have emerged of a child killed by Vladimir Putin in his missile attack on a hospital in kyiv.
Seven-year-old Yehor Zavadetskyi was in kyiv’s famous Okhmatdyt clinic suffering from severe kidney problems after falling off his bicycle on June 20.
On Monday the hospital was hit by a Russian bomb, killing a kidney specialist and one other person.
It has now emerged that Yehor lost his fight for life following the Russian missile, which Ukraine says was deliberately aimed at the hospital.
Seven-year-old Yehor Zavadetskyi (pictured) was in kyiv’s famous Okhmatdyt clinic with severe kidney problems.
Pictured is grieving mother Anastasia Zavadetska, whose son, sadly, after 12 days in a coma,
The moment the Russian Kh-101 missile hit Okhmatdyt, Ukraine’s largest medical center treating children with cancer
Another view of the missile, which Ukraine says was deliberately aimed at the hospital.
“My son is dead. Yehor has fallen asleep forever. He is only seven years old,” said his heartbroken mother, Anastasia Zavadetska.
He was on dialysis at the time of the attack and was critically ill on the seventh floor of the hospital.
“I was leaning over my son to pray and there was a flurry of noise,” she said.
‘Two windows in the living room exploded…
‘All life support devices were turned off, doctors rushed to try to help the sick.
‘There was a lot of dust, smoke, blood and screams in the hallway.
‘Many newborns… injured.’
Yehor was part of a family displaced by war, forced to leave their home in Kherson.
Yehor had been in a coma and had undergone several surgeries, but there was hope that he would survive – until the rocket attack.
“I was bending over my son to pray and a sudden attack occurred,” said Anastasia, a heartbroken mother.
Yehor Zavadetskyi was suffering from severe kidney problems after falling off his bike on June 20.
Among the two who died in hospital was 30-year-old nephrologist Svitlana Lukyanchik (pictured).
Svitlana Lukyanchik was an orphan from Lviv who became a prominent doctor after graduating from the National Medical University of Ukraine.
Svitlana Lukyanchik said she wanted to “help the most defenseless: the children.” She was among two people who died in the hospital.
The hospital walls collapsed and her son’s treatment was interrupted due to the Russian missile attack.
“We immediately threw ourselves to the ground, then they took us to the ground floor, but there was a fire there.”
Her son had been in a coma and had undergone several surgeries, but there was hope that he would survive – until the rocket attack.
Yehor was taken to the kyiv Cardiocenter where he died this morning.
The boy was from a family displaced by war, forced to leave their home in Kherson.
Among the two people who died in hospital was kidney specialist Svitlana Lukyanchik, 30.
She was an orphan from Lviv who became a prominent doctor after graduating from the National Medical University of Ukraine.
He wanted to “help the most defenseless: the children.”
