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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Clare McCarthy

Ukrainian boy, 5, with leukaemia flees his war-torn country to continue cancer treatment in Ireland

A five-year-old Ukrainian boy with leukaemia has fled his war-torn country to continue his cancer treatment in Ireland.

A GoFundMe page for Leonid Shapoval, to help his family pay for his leukaemia treatment in Ireland, has already raised over €41,000.

Young Leonid was due to receive one final session of chemotherapy before he underwent a life-saving bone marrow transplant in Kyiv on March 10.

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