A YOUNG Ukrainian doctor was killed on his first day of work when Russia blitzed a hospital in frontline southern Kherson.
Dmytro Bilyi, 25, died instantly in a suspected mortar blast.
A female nurse standing next to him was left with life-threatening injuries and at least four other medics were wounded.
The Sun witnessed the gruesome aftermath with blood marks across two floors of the Yevhen Karabelesh City Hospital.
The mortar hit a first floor operating theatre which was empty at the time.
Witnesses said Dr Bilyi, an ear nose and throat specialist, was standing a few yards away and suffered multiple fatal shrapnel wounds.
It was his first full day of work after completing an internship.
Devastated colleagues said he was “delighted when he went to work that day”.
Staff at the Zaporizhzhia State Medical University, where he had studied since 2015, said: “He was very kind, cheerful, he won hearts, always smiling.
“Dmytro studied well, dreamed of becoming a qualified doctor, and was delighted when he went to work that day.”
His pal Serhii Marusian said he had followed his mother’s footsteps into medicine.
It comes as a new investigation revealed that Vladimir Putin’s evil thugs brutalised Ukrainians in Kherson with electrocution and sexual violence in horrifying torture chambers.
Evidence shows almost 50 per cent of those held in the previously occupied city’s torture dungeons faced suffocation, waterboarding, severe beatings and threats of rape.
A specialist unit uncovered the evidence of barbaric tactics and abuse used by pro-Russian perpetrators against hundreds of captured Ukrainian soldiers, teachers and medics.
Meanwhile, Ukraine has reportedly wiped out hundreds of Russian soldiers who thought they were out of the range of danger.
Sources say five US-made HIMARS missiles slammed into the squaddies who were gathered on a beach in the Kherson region.
It is claimed that up to 200 of Putin’s men were on the occupied Dzharylhach Island when the strikes occurred.
THE SUN
