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Daily Mirror
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Maksym Levin & Alice Peacock

Weeping Ukrainian cradles body of son killed in Putin's Russian army air raids

A heartbreaking image showing the cost of war has emerged from the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, showing a devastated father weeping over the body of his teenage son.

The dad, who was known only as Serhii, cradled his son Iliya's head as he bent over the stretcher set up at a maternity unit, which was covered by a blood-soaked sheet.

The boy had arrived at the hospital moments earlier in the back of a car, with both legs having been ripped apart by a Russian shell.

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