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Clutching his lost son's hand, the father whose grief reminds us we must never turn our backs on Ukraine: As Kyiv rallies a 'million-man army' to drive back the Russians with Western weapons, DAVID PATRIKARAKOS reports on the pointless horror of war
DAVID PATRIKARAKOS: The war in Ukraine has generated thousands of images of death, disaster and loss, but few have been as heartbreaking as the picture that emerged this week of the Ukrainian father holding the lifeless hand of his dead teenage son. Dmytro, 13, was killed by a Russian rocket as he waited at a bus stop, and his devastated father (left) knelt beside his body, keeping vigil for two hours, tears streaming down his face as he clutched a small book in his other hand while reciting prayers. It highlighted once again the terrible price that ordinary Ukrainians are paying for standing up to the imperialist ambitions of Russia's war-mongering president Vladimir Putin. But as the conflict enters Day 150 this weekend, there are growing signs of war fatigue in the West. And with Boris Johnson, Kyiv's greatest international cheerleader, set to leave office in six weeks' time, there has never been a greater need to remind ourselves of the growing threat posed by Putin's barbaric army.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11037335/DAVID-PATRIKARAKOS-father-grief-reminds-never-turn-backs-Ukraine.html
DAVID PATRIKARAKOS: The war in Ukraine has generated thousands of images of death, disaster and loss, but few have been as heartbreaking as the picture that emerged this week of the Ukrainian father holding the lifeless hand of his dead teenage son. Dmytro, 13, was killed by a Russian rocket as he waited at a bus stop, and his devastated father (left) knelt beside his body, keeping vigil for two hours, tears streaming down his face as he clutched a small book in his other hand while reciting prayers. It highlighted once again the terrible price that ordinary Ukrainians are paying for standing up to the imperialist ambitions of Russia's war-mongering president Vladimir Putin. But as the conflict enters Day 150 this weekend, there are growing signs of war fatigue in the West. And with Boris Johnson, Kyiv's greatest international cheerleader, set to leave office in six weeks' time, there has never been a greater need to remind ourselves of the growing threat posed by Putin's barbaric army.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11037335/DAVID-PATRIKARAKOS-father-grief-reminds-never-turn-backs-Ukraine.html
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Dmytro, 13, was killed by a Russian rocket as he waited at a bus stop, and his devastated father knelt beside his body (pictured), keeping vigil for two hours, tears streaming down his face as he clutched a small book in his other hand while reciting prayers.
I am inclined to think that this is because it is so difficult to think of something appropriate to say, rather than people not caring.
It is too horrible to imagine and too difficult to find the right response.
How could you not hate Putin for this?
Yes, it's just too awful for words.
A man is comforted by a police officer as he sits with the body of his son, who was killed by a Russian military strike in Kharkiv.
A lone father clutched a small book in one hand as he stared forward reciting a prayer. In the other, he held the limp hand of his dead 13-year-old son.
The boy, Dmytro, was killed while he waited for a bus in Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv, the latest victim of the constant shelling and missile attacks by Russia.
His sister Ksenia, 15, was taken to hospital in a grave condition, local authorities reported. The attack also killed an elderly couple.
The teenagers’ father spent about two hours by his son’s body at the site of the shelling, holding his lifeless hand and reading prayers.
Soon after, he stood and watched paramedics zip up the body bag and take it away as he made the sign of the cross.
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/fathers-tender-vigil-over-son-13-killed-by-russian-rocket-in-kharkiv-41856567.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11031907/Heartbreaking-photo-shows-Ukrainian-father-clutching-dead-sons-hand-Russian-missile-attack.html