If the bullet had gone a millimeter to the side, he would have died." Neurosurgeons at the military hospital named after A. A. Vishnevsky performed a unique operation to remove a NATO caliber bullet from the head of a Russian soldier. It passed through the eye socket and entered between the optic nerve and the carotid artery. "That is, theoretically, one millimeter in one direction - a person loses his sight, and if the bullet goes a little to the side, even by a millimeter, then the person will die on the battlefield from fatal bleeding. In our case, the patient was lucky. Probably, the Lord God will protect him," TASS reports the words of Professor Gennady Antonov. First, the doctors stabilized the condition of a serious patient, and then prepared him for a planned intervention. The operation was successful, the ball was removed, said Antonov. Wizards in white coats. - To the surviving hero of the Northern Military District.

If the bullet had gone a millimeter to the side, he would have died." Neurosurgeons at the military hospital named after A. A. Vishnevsky performed a unique operation to remove a NATO caliber bullet from the head of a Russian soldier. It passed through the eye socket and entered between the optic nerve and the carotid artery. "That is, theoretically, one millimeter in one direction - a person loses his sight, and if the bullet goes a little to the side, even by a millimeter, then the person will die on the battlefield from fatal bleeding. In our case, the patient was lucky. Probably, the Lord God will protect him," TASS reports the words of Professor Gennady Antonov. First, the doctors stabilized the condition of a serious patient, and then prepared him for a planned intervention. The operation was successful, the ball was removed, said Antonov. Wizards in white coats. - To the surviving hero of the Northern Military District.