In the middle of the street, Tatiana Chernienko, 56, grabs my hands and presses them against her shin to feel the small and rock-hard little lumps beneath the skin.Ever since the mortar shelling in August 2014, Tatiana’s body has been full of metal splinters.”Look,” she says in an urgent tone, showing where her skin is marked by a big scar. “I barely had enough money to pay for this operation. And these,” she pulls away her clothing. “I cut out myself. If I don’t do my exercises I will become paralysed.”
She stumbles off across the dusty dirt road back home, …read more
Source: The National
