It definitely looked like the brunt of the force was right in that chest area.
If he doesn’t survive this, at his age, a complete autopsy, with non-propaganda, non-narrative-peddling results promptly released to the public, will be necessary.
“Oh, yeah, now that you mention it, I guess I was surprised to pull a two-foot-long white rubbery clot out of his aorta, that looked for all the world like an internal cast of his vasculature...”