Ukrainian Teenager Injured by a Cassette Bomb in Riga

At Riga East University Hospital (RAKUS), medical assistance was provided to a teenager who most likely sustained injuries from a cluster bomb during the war in Ukraine, reports rus.tvnet.lv, citing the Latvian television program "Panorāma.".

The use of such munitions is prohibited because their purpose is to cause the widest and most severe harm to civilians. The teenager experienced excruciating pain because the sheet of foil severed the nerves in his shoulder, paralyzing his right arm.

Mārtiņš Kapickis, a leading specialist in peripheral nerve surgery at the Microsurgery Center, notes that “this is something incredible.”

“So far, we haven’t had a single child with a gunshot wound,” he said, referring to the teenager who had undergone surgery and who, judging by his physique, was still just a little boy.

The teenager and his mother declined to speak with LTV, especially after their experience in the humanitarian corridor for refugees in Russia.

“He’s glad that people are taking care of him and helping him. Since the wound was cleaned and stitched up during the first stage. That’s normal, completely normal. It happened at the border, on the Ukrainian border,” said Kapitskis. .

On March 2, a boy was injured in the neck in Ukraine. Nerve damage hurts much more than a fracture. Two months of excruciating pain followed before the boy arrived in Latvia and saw a regular family doctor. It was the doctors who referred him to Mārtiņš Kapickis. “The most excruciating pain a human body can experience. Anyone who’s ever had a toothache knows what that means. And that’s only a thousandth of it. Wild, excruciating pain. When I first met him, it was impossible to communicate with him because of the pain,” said the microsurgeon.