Dr. Boris Todurov, left, performed heart transplant surgery on his patient, 12-year-old Kira Skilarova, second from right, during a Russian attack on Kyiv on July 9. (Kyiv Heart Institute)As a rule, the stories in our “following up” series look back at previous articles from Goats and Soda. But when freelance journalist Ruchi Kumar pitched the idea of following up on media coverage of a heart transplant for a 12-year-old girl, whose heart had been weakened by illness, we were interested. Todurov had a patient — Kira Skliarova, a 12-year-old girl from Luhansk region of Ukraine — who needed a new heart urgently. “A chance at a new life”“It was a very serious attack that night, but the whole time, I was praying to all the gods, Kira, Kira, Kira,” her mother recalled.