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War in Ukraine: Kharkiv's hospitals reveal the hideous cost of Putin's invasion
War in Ukraine: Kharkiv’s hospitals reveal the hideous cost of Putin’s invasion
In Kharkiv’s hospitals the faces of war are sculpted by flying glass and burning shrapnel. Women are adorned in stitches, their skin coloured in bruises and garish green disinfectant. Wounded children stare up from their beds, listless with pain and trauma. Some weep in shock.
Artillery fire and the roar of jets overhead rattle the windows on the wards, so that fear follows them even as their injuries are treated by exhausted medical staff working back-to-back shifts.
Better than any military map, it is their mutilated skin and ripped flesh that best charts the progress of the Russian campaign in Ukraine’s second city, under attack from air strikes, surface-to-surface missiles and artillery fire, as the operation to seize Kharkiv spirals from military thrust into a punitive bombardment.
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In Kharkiv’s hospitals the faces of war are sculpted by flying glass and burning shrapnel. Women are adorned in stitches, their skin coloured in bruises and garish green disinfectant. Wounded children stare up from their beds, listless with pain and trauma. Some weep in shock.
Artillery fire and the roar of jets overhead rattle the windows on the wards, so that fear follows them even as their injuries are treated by exhausted medical staff working back-to-back shifts.
Better than any military map, it is their mutilated skin and ripped flesh that best charts the progress of the Russian campaign in Ukraine’s second city, under attack from air strikes, surface-to-surface missiles and artillery fire, as the operation to seize Kharkiv spirals from military thrust into a punitive bombardment.
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