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Vova may be able to do it, he is 11 years old and life ahead of him. But now his life is all in that puppet that he holds to his chest with poignant despair, in this room on the third floor of the Ohmatdyt hospital in Kiev where they took him the other night with a disfigured face. They had picked him up in the car hit full by Russian artillery fire, next to his father’s lifeless body.