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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Daniel Boffey in Lviv

‘Ghost town’: nursing the wounded children amid the horrors of Mariupol

Mariupol survivor Valentyna Masharenkov
Mariupol survivor Valentyna Masharenkova was tending to the city’s wounded and sick before a family member arranged for her evacuation to Lviv. Photograph: Daniel Boffey/The Guardian

In the dimly lit basement of a bomb-damaged administrative building near Mariupol’s railway station, four injured siblings are waiting, under shelling, for salvation.

The worst off is Anya, 11. Shrapnel from a blast that exploded near them a week ago as they were cooking over a makeshift fire sliced through her femoral artery, causing a catastrophic haemorrhage.

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