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Antony Thrower

Injured Ukrainian girl, 12, being taken to Russian orphanage after dad killed in war

A Ukrainian girl injured as she attempted to escape besieged Mariupol in an explosion from a landmine is to be sent to an orphanage in Russia.

Kira Obedinsky, 12, lost her mother when she was a baby and her father Yevhen was killed as enemy forces fought their way into the city in March.

Shortly afterwards, the youngster and her father’s partner Anya attempted to flee the city in which 21,000 civilians have been killed by relentless Russian shelling.

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