Surgeons donned body armour for a highly dangerous operation to save the life of a Russian soldier who had become a 'human bomb'.
Junior Sergeant Nikolay Pasenko, 41, had been hit by a Ukrainian attack, and unexploded ordnance from an automatic grenade launcher was embedded inside him, under his heart.
The ammunition shattered his ribs, damaged a lung and lodged near his spine, between the aorta and the inferior vena cava; the largest vein in the body.
