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Will Stewart & Kelly-Ann Mills

Girl, 5, blinded by bullet to skull and orphaned as family massacred by Putin's troops

A five-year-old girl who survived being shot in the skull as she and her family fled invading Russian troops in Ukraine has been left blinded and orphaned.

Tragic Nastya Konchakovkaya lost her mother Tanya and father Oleg, as well as her 18-year-old half brother Nikita, who were all shot dead by the soldiers, with only her grandmother Vasilina and the tot escaping with their lives.

The full horror of the little girl's ordeal has been revealed as she has reached Germany and awaits eye surgery.

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