Wounded Ukrainian soldier receives life-saving treatment at Cork hospital

Staff give intensive care and support, helping man to learn to walk again after fragments from bomb explosion lodged inside skull

Myroslav, 24, a Ukrainian who was injured in the war and treated in CUH, pictured with his mother Liudmila and Svetlana Zakharova, a Ukrainian immigrant support worker from Together Razem, the Cork-based NGO.

Staff at Cork University Hospital (CUH) have successfully treated a critically-injured Ukrainian soldier following a bombing which left fragments in his skull.

The soldier, aged 24, was left paralysed following an attack on April 15 on a small village near the Kharkiv region.