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(5,434 posts) Mon Mar 14, 2022, 01:05 PM Mar 2022

Pregnant woman and baby die from bombing

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-maternity-hospital-pregnant-woman-dead-c0f2f859296f9f02be24fc9edfca1085

A pregnant woman, her face pale, lies on a stretcher. Her left hip is covered in blood as she is rushed out of a hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, which had just been hit by an airstrike.

The gripping picture, captured by photographer Evgeniy Maloletka for the Associated Press, encapsulated the toll on civilians of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It was shared, and the strike condemned, around the world — but little was known about the woman herself.Now, the AP reports that the woman and her baby died in horrific conditions in the aftermath of the attack on the hospital — arriving for surgery with her pelvis crushed and hip detached.

Surgeon Timur Marin told the AP that medics delivered the baby via Caesarean section but that the infant showed “no signs of life.”

Video from besieged Mariupol shows physical and emotional devastation: ‘I don’t know where to run’

The woman, whose name has not been revealed publicly, is part of a civilian death toll from the war in Ukraine that the United Nations putsat 596, although it said it “believes that the actual figures are considerably higher.”