'My mother needs surgery and that’s why I have to help her.' Six months after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, AP revisited Danyk Rak — a 12 year old from Chernihiv whose life has been upended by war.
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Twenty-two weeks after she was wounded, she’s still waiting to have her foot amputated and to be fitted with a prosthetic. She keeps the piece of shrapnel surgeons removed during one of her many operations.Danyk lives with his mother and grandmother in a house near Chernihiv, a town 140 kilometers north of Kyiv, where a piece of tarp covers the broken bedroom windows. He sells milk from the family’s cow that grazes in the nearby fields.
Polite and soft spoken, Danyk says his father and stepfather are both fighting in the Ukrainian army. “This bridge was the road from hell,” says Huseinov, 34, standing next to an overturned white van still lodged into a slab of smashed concrete.
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