Father mourns son after shelling on Ukraine soccer field

[milestogo]

MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — The surgeons leaving the operating room don’t make eye contact. One of them holds up his hands. Another looks down, defeated. It’s then that the father waiting at the doorway grabs his forehead, tears welling, and turns away, a wail about to escape his throat.

The man, identified only as Serhii, enters the room and finds his 16-year-old son, Iliya, is still and draped by a blood-stained sheet. Serhii drops down, hugs Iliya’s lifeless head and convulses with grief.

Iliya was fatally wounded Wednesday while playing soccer in Mariupol when shelling started amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The explosive hit the soccer field near a school in the Azov Sea city.

Elsewhere in Mariupol, shelling illuminated darkening skies as medics stood in a parking lot, with heavy fighting continuing on the city outskirts on Thursday. The city was plunged into darkness as the battle knocked out most phone services and raised the prospect of food and water shortages.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-sports-soccer-europe-international-soccer-b9ee718472ed3e23f8c70124ef4c3318

[orwell]

1. Savvy...genius...

...MONSTER!

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. A parent's worst nightmare that is playing all over the Ukraine.

All because a little, emotionally stunted man in Moscow had to feed his delusion of grandeur..

[C Moon]

5. And also because he failed to overthrow the US with his puppet trump.

[Wingus Dingus]

3. Awful.

[blue-wave]

4. I grieve with the father and then

well up with anger. There must be charges of crimes against humanity brought against Pootin and any of his minions who started this war and are continuing it. How can you drop bombs on children playing soccer?

[BigmanPigman]

6. Same here....

I go back and forth between infuriating anger and total grief.

💙💛💙💛💙💛💙💛💙💛💙💛💙