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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Stephen White

Ukrainian mum's 'thanks to Britain' for giving cancer-stricken Zlata, 4, chance to live

The family of a little girl battling cancer who fled the war in Ukraine for treatment in the UK have thanked her NHS “saviours”.

Four-year-old Zlata Tkachenko had just left intensive care after treatment for leukaemia in Kharkiv when Russians bombs began to rain down on the city.

She and her mother Alina were forced to take shelter in a makeshift underground ward along with other patients and parents desperately seeking safety.

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