Mariupol.Photo: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP/Shutterstock
In a photo that quickly circulated around the world, the woman is seen bloodied near her waist and pale as five frontline workers carry her away from the destroyed Mariupol’s children’s hospital and maternity ward, where she was set to give birth.
The unidentified woman was left with a crushed pelvis and detached hip from the attack.
As medics triaged the scene following the bombing, they were unable to get the mother’s name. But her husband and father later came to take her body, keeping her from going into the mass grave now in Mariupol to handle the growing number of dead people.
Mariana Vishegirskaya.Evgeniy Maloletka/AP/Shutterstock
“It happened on March 9 in Hospital No. 3 in Mariupol. We were laying in wards when glasses, frames, windows and walls flew apart,” she told the AP. The outlet said they had tracked down victims of the attack and found Vishegirskaya wearing the same polka dot pajamas that she was photographed in immediately after the attack.
“We don’t know how it happened. We were in our wards and some had time to cover themselves, some didn’t.”
Mariana Vishegirskaya with her newborn daughter.Evgeniy Maloletka/AP/Shutterstock
The AP is one of the few outlets still present in Mariupol, where anyone still in the city have been without food, water, power or heat for more than a week.
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With NATO forces massing in the region around Ukraine, various countries have also pledged aid or military support to the resistance. Ukrainian PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyycalled for peace talks — so far unsuccessful — while urging his country to fight back.
Putin insists Ukraine has historic ties to Russia and he is acting in the best security interests of his country. Zelenskyy has vowed not to bend.
“Nobody is going to break us, we’re strong, we’re Ukrainians,“he told the European Unionin a speech in the early days of the fighting, adding, “Life will win over death. And light will win over darkness.”
source: people.com
