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Ukraine’s top heart surgeon has slammed Vladimir Putin after blackouts forced doctors to perform heart surgery on children by torchlight.

Professor Borys Todurov sarcastically told Russians to ‘rejoice’ at the mayhem they are causing by bombing Kyiv’s electricity supplies, which have caused power outages so severe they are visible from space.

In a video posted by Dr Todurov – who works as a cardiac surgeon at the Kyiv Heart Centre – medics were plunged into darkness midway through a life-saving operation on a small child.

Doctors were midway through a cardiopulmonary bypass surgery when the lights went off due to a missile strike on the country’s energy infrastructure.

‘The electricity is gone. The surgeons operate with their headlamps on,’ said Dr Todurov as he filmed doctors working.

‘Try to complete it as fast as possible,’ he told his team. ‘We will start the generator now.’

‘This is how we are carrying out heart surgery today.’ 

Illia Yemets, another surgeon at the hospital, later confirmed the baby survived, ABC reports.

Dr Yemets described the conditions as ‘the worst I have seen in my surgical life’, but said they had no choice but to operate if they wanted to save the child’s life.

Elsewhere in the video, Todurov issued a powerful message to the Russian people in whose name Putin is devastating key infrastructure in Ukraine.

‘We’ll start the generator now, but sadly it will take several minutes,’ he said.

‘This is where we are now.

‘So rejoice Russians, a child was on the surgical table when the lights went completely off.

‘Well done. Very humane people.’

Russian missile strikes have caused ‘colossal’ damage to the Ukrainian power grid in attacks which have been condemned as ‘genocidal’ due to their impact on civilians.

Satellite images released by Nasa show the majority of Ukraine blanketed in darkness throughout November compared to neighbouring countries in Europe.

Earlier this week, all 30 Nato countries adopted a resolution recognising Russia as a ‘terrorist state’.

‘The resolution names Russia the most direct threat to Euro-Atlantic security,’ said Tomas Valasek, head of the Slovak delegation to the Nato Parliamentary Assembly. 

‘It states clearly that the state of Russia, under its current regime, is a terrorist one.’

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