Peace talks are just optics, says widower after Russian drone attack
When the doctors at Okhmatdyt children's hospital wake one young patient from his medically induced coma, he will discover he has lost his left eye to Russian shrapnel.
He will find his face, lacerated by the shards of a suicide drone, has been stitched back together and he will struggle to eat because of the pain caused by a hole in his tongue.
When he reaches out for his mother for comfort he will realise she has been taken from him for ever.
Mark Yefimenko, 4, and his mother, Anna, 27, are victims of Russia's biggest drone onslaught since the war began. Launched on Sunday, the day before President Trump's latest call to President Putin, at least 273 Russian long-range drones, mostly Iranian-designed Shaheds, hit
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