VIDEO: Irish aid saves 30 kids in Ukraine

Cardiac surgeons have thanked the people of Ireland for funding lifesaving surgery on children living close to the frontline of Ukraine’s bitter civil war.

The team of renowned US and Argentinian paediatric specialists was flown to Kharkiv, just two hours from the conflict zone, by Adi Roche’s Chernobyl Children International (CCI) following an emotional appeal last December from parents of children dying from heart diseases.