Kharkiv mayor Hennadiy Kernes has suffered a serious thoraco-abdominal injury, a doctor from the emergency aid hospital, where the mayor is undergoing a surgery, told reporters.
A thoraco-abdominal injury is caused by damage to diaphragm resulting in an aperture between the chest and abdomen.
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