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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

AP PHOTOS: Shattered lives and recovery in Ukraine war

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

An 11-year-old boy pushes his sister in a swing outside a hospital in Lviv, her dangling legs wrapped in bandages where they end. Their mother, too, has lost a leg and comforts the girl in her hospital bed.

Yarik Stepanenko, twin sister Yana and their mother, Natasha, were trying to catch a train heading west — to safety — from the eastern city of Kramatorsk when a missile hit the station on April 8. Yana lost both legs: one just above the ankle, the other higher up her shin. Natasha lost her left leg below the knee.

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