The hero doctor doing brain surgery as war raged around him

His first patient was a seven-year-old girl. She arrived at the hospital covered in blood with shards of shrapnel driven deep into her head and hovering on the brink of death.

The child’s family had been trying to escape the carnage that exploded around their home on the outskirts of after the arrival of Russian forces attempting to capture the Ukrainian capital. But their car was caught up in the battle. Only her father survived unscathed.

Her older brother, a prominent footballer, and then her mother had succumbed to horrific wounds within minutes of reaching the hospital in Bucha, 15 miles west of Kyiv.

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