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Bohdan's father wasted away for weeks in the corridor room of a shelter for the injured and homeless before stomach cancer finally claimed him on Oct 3. During every dwindling waking moment at the end of his life, Mykola Svyryd worried about his son. Those who didn't have the means to flee the city quickly enough cowered in its basements, surviving — but only just — without electricity, gas or running water. In early September, a Ukrainian counteroffensive swept through the Kharkiv region, sending the Russians into a disorganized retreat from Izium and other towns.
"He was born disabled. He never went to school. I taught him to read a little, to write numbers and letters," Svyryd said of his son. Bohdan embraced his father tenderly and often in the older man's last days. He whispers along with Ukrainian pop music and plays small-screen video games as avidly as any teen.
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There are lots of AMERICAN children with disabilities without parents. Why not spotlight them? Are they just not worthy enough?
Thank zelensky for that
All the orphans here in the US and y'all...
Ppl have cancer in Ukraine, time to send another 350 billion
Iran regime is destroying middle east and ukraine they shoyld be gone MahsaAmini
We still have lots of diseases to confront, how come we put people on the war fires.
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It's hurtful, it's God's will,Lord have mercy on them, It's not that I'm giving up on God, but I'm saying this because there's nothing we can do other than this.
Very sad story, I would hope a family would take him in or a mother or father there. This war is awful. Prayers for the people of Ukraine❤️
…is this a serious story?
I rather prefer sending him billions dollards instead of sending guns and missiles.
Yeah, f*** cancer too. But at least cancerous cells have the excuse that they are not aware of the pain they are inflicting.
So so sad! Praying for Ukraine!
Meanwhile in LA..... But let’s keep focusing on some country on the other side of the planet...... Eye roll
Ok? It's sad, but why is this considered newsworthy?
Nazi propaganda 😒😒
Ukrainians are Nazis
This war would not even be going on if Trump were president! Putin was afraid of him.
This is so horrible and sad
So sad. God be with you.
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