Semyon was in a critical condition in hospital for 72 hours when the family s car was riddled with bullets as they tried to flee Kyiv as the Russians tried to encircle the capital.
Biden started his first State of the Union Tuesday by accusing Vladimir Putin of underestimating western allies and the Ukrainian people and closing off U.S. air space to all Russian flights.
A doctor in blue medical scrubs, pumping oxygen into her, looked straight at the camera of an Associated Press videojournalist who had been allowed inside and said: “Show this to Putin – the eyes of this child, and crying doctors.”
Polina s younger brother Semyon Kudrin and her eldest sister Sofia are both in intensive care in Kyiv after three of their family were murdered in their car by one of Putin s sabotage and reconnaissance units.