A four-year-old girl with Down’s Syndrome has become the latest innocent victim of Putin’s war in Ukraine after she was killed in her pram by a Russian cruise missile which also left her mother fighting for life.
Liza Dmitrieva was accompanying mother Irina on a day out in the city of Vinnystya – in western Ukraine, hundreds of miles from the nearest frontline – when a Russian Kalibre missile launched from a submarine in the Black Sea crashed down on top of them around 10.50am local time.
The pink pram that Liza had been filmed pushing an hour earlier was left lying on its side in the middle of the road, spattered in blood from wounds that the little girl tragically did not survive. Meanwhile Irina was rushed to hospital in critical condition, where she is now battling for her life.
Another 19 people – including two other children – also died in the attack which left 90 wounded, 50 of them in serious condition. President Zelensky condemned the strike as ‘an open act of terrorism’…