Miracle as Sofia survives cluster bomb attack
A NINE-year-old girl has miraculously survived a Russian cluster bomb attack that left shrapnel lodged in her brain. Sofia Hurmasa even summoned the strength to speak from her hospital bed: ‘Now, my dream is for the war to be over.’ Her ability to speak at all has astonished doctors after the blast in the southern city of Mykolaiv left Sofia in a coma. Shrapnel from a banned cluster bomb shattered her skull, with one piece ripping through her forehead and passing through her brain. She underwent surgery in Mykolaiv before being brought to Lviv where medics are planning a seven-hour procedure to remove the fragment.
Her mother Nina, 48, recalled how just two months ago, Sofia was posting TikTok videos of herself dancing and singing. Now she can barely walk and struggles to compose her thoughts.
Nina and Sofia were caught in a Russian bombardment as they walked to a restaurant to buy some soup. Nina saw her daughter’s favourite beanie hat had turned crimson red. ‘Sofia lost consciousness. In that moment I thought I was losing her,’ she said.
Gazing lovingly at Sofia in her hospital bed, Nina seethes at Putin. ‘This man has no heart. I cannot even say his name. How can he do this to our children?’