Brit MP aids shot boy after ambush
Emer Scully
THIS is the moment a boy with bullet wounds began treatment with the help of a British MP after his granny was killed and entire family injured in a Russian ambush.
Labour’s Rosena Allin-khan picked the family up in Lviv on her way home from a humanitarian mission with Us-based Medglobal.
Vasily Shiripa, 64, and his wife Nina, 61, had been driving in convoy outside Kyiv with their daughters Tallina Soboleva, 39, and Illina Prusakova, 34.
In the backseat of the second car sat grandsons Yelisey Sobolev, 10, and Timofei Prusakova, 12.
The family had left their homes and husbands behind in Kyiv to escape westwards.
Just 15 minutes into their journey, an armoured Russian vehicle fired a rocket and hundreds of bullets at the family.
They all had serious arm injuries but grandmother Nina suffered an agonising death in Illina’s arms after unsurvivable blood loss from stomach wounds.
After a week struggling to get medical attention, the family met Dr Allin-khan’s team in Lviv, who brought them to hospital in Lublin, Poland, on a coach where volunteer medics checked an X-ray of Timofei’s wounds.
Rosena, Labour MP for Tooting, South London, who is also a doctor, said:“when we got to Poland we’d all created such a bond every single person on the coach including the driver walked them to the hospital.”
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Digital artwork to give £2.5m boost
COMPUTER art is set to raise millions for Ukrainian refugees after being released for auction today.
THE NFTS – otherwise known as Non Fungible Tokens – are one-off digital items that change hands between collectors for huge sums of money.
World Art Bank has launched a platform to sell digital assets of famous Ukrainian artists depicting the invasion, which are expected to fetch £2.5million.
WAB says all funds will be credited into a digital cryptocurrency account set up by Ukraine’s government.
Boss Eric Pelletier said: “We see NFTS as a great opportunity to provide direct financial support to the Ukrainian people by the purchase of art by their greatest national artists.”
Art For Ukraine’s Refugees will issue and sell 1,045 NFTS. Shares will start at £16.80 each.
The NFTS are created by cyber artist Mobaygv and are a mix of sketches from the current war and early 20th century paintings.