Overview
- In St. Petersburg around 00:30 on New Year’s night, a firework exploded in a six-year-old’s hand in a courtyard on Moskovskoye Highway, prompting emergency admission to the pediatric university clinic.
- Surgeons performed wound debridement, open repositioning and metal osteosynthesis for tendon and nerve damage, with doctors calling the functional outlook optimistic.
- In Blagoveshchensk, the mayor said a boy lost several fingers when previously unexploded “bombs” detonated in his hands, and he underwent urgent surgery.
- Rostov-on-Don authorities reported a child injured after a pyrotechnic fragment entered an open window; police seized the device remnants for tests, and the child’s life is not in danger.
- The St. Petersburg pediatric clinic said it is working in an intensified holiday regime, receiving mostly household and street trauma, as officials urge parents to use certified fireworks and warn children about risks.