Ukrainian soldier miraculously alive for Christmas after top surgeon removes Russian bullet from his HEART during a jaw-dropping surgery caught on film

A Ukrainian soldier is alive on Christmas Day after miraculously surviving a Russian bullet lodged in his heart.

Leading Ukrainian cardiac surgeon Boris Todurov showed in a graphic video how he removed a 7.62mm bullet in his Kyiv operating room.

“It’s incredible luck that almost no one survives heart wounds like this,” he said.

The famous surgeon Todurov was assisted by an entire medical team as he used tweezers to pull a bullet out of a beating heart.

According to him, five days after the operation, the patient, whose identity has not been established, was walking around his room.

Leading Ukrainian heart surgeon Boris Todurov helped a Ukrainian soldier survive after leading the team that removed a bullet from his heart

Todurov was assisted by a full medical team from the Kyiv Heart Institute

An experienced surgeon removed the bullet with tweezers

Pictured: Tweezers were used to remove a 7.62mm bullet.

Operating at the Kiev Heart Institute, the surgeon said that the bullet “sticks straight out of the ventricle…

– Yes, right in the wall of the ventricle.

It was a 7.62 mm bullet from an automatic rifle, possibly from a machine gun, quite large.

“It’s stuck in the wall of the ventricle. We pulled him out without blood loss. Not everyone is so lucky.

– So – such a bullet entered the heart and did not cause sudden death.

Earlier during the war, Todurov, 58, a professor of medicine and director of the Ukrainian Health Ministry’s Heart Institute, criticized Vladimir Putin for forcing doctors to perform emergency heart surgery on children by torchlight.

He sarcastically advised Russians to “rejoice” in the chaos they are causing by bombing Kyiv’s power grids.

During the war, he performed several operations on soldiers.

Kiev resident Todurov performed his first heart surgery at the age of 22.

In 2001, he performed the first human heart transplant in Ukraine.

In 2016, he performed the first mechanical heart implantation operation in Ukraine.

Kiev resident Todurov performed the first heart surgery at the age of 22 and performed the first human heart transplant in Ukraine.

It comes as morale drops among Zelensky’s troops as the war enters a harsh second winter. In the photo: A tankman in a New Year’s outfit performs a combat mission.

Another video, published in April, showed footage of a similar operation to remove a bullet from the heart of a Ukrainian soldier.

Doctors at the Feofaniya Hospital in Kyiv made incisions before removing the metal bullet.

It comes as morale drops among Zelensky’s troops as snow and ice cover the ground and the war continues into a second winter.

Meanwhile, rat fever is spreading along Putin’s front lines, with troops reporting symptoms of vomiting and bleeding eyes on the northeastern Kupyansky front, near the Russian border.