WARNING DISTRRESSING CONTENT Nine-year-old Valya Korolev was helping his father with his chores when he was set upon by two dogs which “ripped his face off” in Krasnodar, Russia
Russia: Child left with ‘no face’ after being attacked by dogs
A young boy has had his “face torn off” in a horror dog attack before being rushed to hospital, where doctors are attempting to reattach his nose.
Valya Korolev, nine, was taking a broom to his dad to help sweep snow from his car when he was ambushed by the animals. Neighbours rushed to find his father, Valentin Korolev, 48, who was unaware of the horror incident.
In the wake of the incident the boy was rushed to a hospital in Krasnodar, Russia. Horrifically, parts of the boy’s face were found in the dog’s stomachs, including his nose, and helicoptered to the hospital for doctors to attempt to reattach it.
The boy’s father Valentin Korolev, 48, said: “It’s hard, it’s very hard. My son is lying in [hospital in] Krasnodar right now. He has no face, really no face.
“The dogs ate him from his eyes to his lower lip. I honestly can’t say anything. The fragments of the face that we extracted from the dogs are being sent by helicopter to Krasnoda.
My son was coming down to me, bringing me a broom to sweep snow off the car. He didn’t make it, I waited and waited. Then the neighbours told me ‘Run here, the huskies attacked your son and tore his face off’. They called an ambulance, the police.”
He complained law enforcement had initially ignored his demand backed by a chief medical officer to recover facial parts from the two huskies, owned by his neighbours in Lesnoye village. A source said: “The boy is in a grave condition. He has undergone his first surgery. If he survives, he will need years of plastic surgery due to this dog attack.”
The incident is the third horrific attack by dogs in Russia in as many days – with a girl, nine, killed by a pack of strays. mid regional governments failing to control the dangerous animals after losing cash to fund Vladimir Putin ’s war against Ukraine.
In a shocking separate case in Stavropol, Veronika Kurilenko, also nine, was seen on a distressing video as stray dogs surrounded her. She fell once and got up, waving her arms and calling for help.
she slipped again and was immediately overwhelmed by the dogs as she walked home through trees after tobogganing. She was ‘torn apart by the pack of dogs’ and died at the scene, according to reports.
A man tried to save the girl, firing a gun to scare away the marauding dogs, but it was too late. There was anguish at the unnamed girl’s funeral attended by more than 100 mourners.
Messages of sympathy have poured in to the girl’s heartbroken mother Oksana, 36, an events organiser, who lost her only child. In another appalling case, a Rottweiler is seen on video after attacking a mother and her son, five, in snow in Yekaterinburg.
The dog bit the mother’s hands but she managed to shield the child with her body as the raging Rottweiler bared its teeth nearby. Neighbours sounded their car horns and shouted to scare the dog when it threatened a new attack.