Two young sisters have been hospitalised in critical condition after being severely poisoned with alcohol in Ukraine.

The four-year-old Maryna and her two-year-old sister Luda were found unconscious in the street in the village of Chaplynka in southern Kherson region.

Reports say the girls were left at risk of death after their father, named as Mykola, gave them wine for lunch.

The father is said to have been babysitting the children while their mother Olga undertook seasonal work in another region of the countryOn October 3rd, when his daughters asked for food at lunch time, Mykola, who was intoxicated at the time, filled their bottles with wine instead of milk, local media reported.

Soon after that, the girls were found unconscious near their house, neighbours said.

Tetiana Shotik, a woman living next door said to local media: 'The girls were lying motionless on the ground. We tried to wake them up but failed. There was a strong smell of alcohol and we called an ambulance.

'Before that I saw them in the street near their house. They were singing something unintelligible and were unsteady on their feet.

'It looked strange but I thought they were playing some kind of a game.

'They had baby bottles with a pink liquid in their hands.'

Maryna and Luda were rushed to intensive care in life-threatening condition and diagnosed with acute alcohol poisoning.

Sergey Minaev, the head of the intensive care unit of Chaplyn Regional Hospital said: 'The girls were hospitalised in a state of alcoholic coma and were on the verge of death.

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