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Eleven-year-old Oleksandr Reshetniak from Kharkiv Oblast still vividly remembers holding the stump of his torn-off leg, trying to stop the bleeding. On Jan. 17, Oleksandr and his 13-year-old cousin Alina were heading to a grocery store in his native village of Malyi Burluk, near Kupiansk, in the east of Kharkiv Oblast, to get some after-lunch treats. Then Russian troops began shelling the area. A shell landed near the children. Alina suffered severe injuries and died in a coma 10 days later. Oleksandr survived the attack but lost part of his right leg. Shortly after the attack occurred, Ukrain…