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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Daniel Boffey

Orphaned girl taken by Russian soldiers reunited with grandfather

Alexsandr Obedinsky received a video call from his 12-year-old granddaughter in Donetsk after two weeks without news.
Alexsandr Obedinsky received a video call from his 12-year-old granddaughter in Donetsk after two weeks without news. Photograph: Family handout

A 12-year-old orphan from Mariupol, who ended up in Russian-controlled Donetsk after being injured in a blast that killed her father, has been discharged from a children’s hospital in Kyiv to start a new life after being reunited with her grandfather.

It is, perhaps, the end of the beginning of the suffering Kira Obedinsky has endured over the last two months. Before leaving the hospital on Tuesday, she was visited by Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who gave her an iPad.

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