The blast left her deafened and she has not eaten for five days. Masha's right arm was also shredded by shrapnel and her shoulder broken. She had been walking with her mother, Sonia, and another girl in their home town of Polohy when a shell landed 10 feet away. A light sheet draped over the body of 15-year-old Masha Feshchenko, clearly shows the outline of a stump where her right leg had been amputated above the knee.
