Doctors detail 'miracle' Ukrainian boy shot point blank in the face by Russian ... trends now
A Ukrainian boy who was shot at point-blank range during Russia's invasion of his country has miraculously lived.
The 16-year-old civilian victim, who has not been named, took a bullet to the back of his neck from a Soviet-issued pistol just six inches away.
The failed execution-style shooting saw the 9mm bullet penetrate his neck, graze the tip of his spine and get lodged in his upper jaw.
The teenager was taken to a hospital in the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia and, amazingly, made a full recovery.
An X-ray of the head and neck showed the bullet had lodged in the skull of the 16-year-old Ukrainian boy
The bullet doctors removed measured 9mm x 18 mm
His tale was revealed in the American Journal of Case Reports by doctors at the National Pirogov Memorial Medical University.
The boy's face was lopsided due to the left side of his face and neck swelling up and he could not open his mouth fully, nor lift his left arm, due to the damage to his spinal cord.
From looking at his 6mm gunshot wound, doctors estimated he had been shot from around 15cm by a Makarov handgun.
The report did not explicitly say a Russian soldier fired the gun, but throughout the war there have been reports of Russian army men carrying out execution-style killings on civilians, including children.
The Ukrainian boy was X-rayed and given a neck brace for support to ensure his head and neck was kept in place.
During surgery, doctors made an incision by the lower part of his jaw, dissected soft tissue in the area and removed the bullet shell from
