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'Vika Zadnipryana and Nastia Shadura are like many teenage girls — Vika enjoys
bead weaving, drawing, and roller-skating, while Nastia loves listening to
bands and painting.
But when Russia's war in Ukraine came into their homes, the joys of a normal
adolescence were ripped away in an instant.
For Vika, 14, it was a suspected drone attack on her family's apartment block
in the southern city of Kherson at 3am on one September day.
"We were asleep when there was a hit on us. It most probably targeted the first
floor," Vika tells the
ABC.
"Shrapnel ripped my arms … two days later, doctors amputated my left hand."
Nastia's home, also in Kherson, was struck in July.
"I was in my backyard when a missile hit our home. I was just three meters
away," Nastia, 16, says.
"My grandmother called for the neighbours to call for the ambulance.
"They took me to the intensive care of Kherson's children's hospital [where]
they amputated my left leg."
Both Vika and Nastia were medically evacuated to Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, and
are roommates at Okhmatdyt Hospital, the country's largest children's hospital.
It, too, has been a casualty of the war, with its toxicology building hit by a
Russian missile on July 8.'
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
