Pregnant woman and her baby evacuated from maternity hospital bombed by Russia in Mariupol die

A pregnant woman and her baby died after Russia bombed the maternity hospital where she was to give birth, she learned Associated Press. Footage of the woman being rushed to an ambulance on a stretcher they had traveled around the world, personifying the horror of an attack against the most innocent of humanity.

In videos and photos taken Wednesday by AP journalists after the hospital attack, The woman is seen stroking her bloodied lower abdomen as rescuers carried her through the rubble in the city besieged by MariupolHis pale face reflected his shock at what had just happened. It was one of the most brutal moments so far in the war of Russia against Ukrainewhich now takes 19 days.

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The woman was rushed to another hospital, even closer to the front line, where doctors worked to keep her alive. Realizing that she was losing her baby, doctors said, she yelled at them: “Kill me now!”

Surgeon Timur Marin found the woman’s pelvis crushed and hip separated. The doctors they delivered the baby by caesarean section, but “he showed no signs of life”, the surgeon said.

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Then they focused on the mother.

“More than 30 minutes of resuscitation of the mother did not produce results”Marin said on Saturday.

“They both died.”

A volunteer works inside a maternity hospital destroyed by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine. (AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)

In the chaos that followed Wednesday’s airstrike, doctors did not have time to get the woman’s name before her husband and father came to remove her body. At least someone came to retrieve it, they said, so that it does not end in the mass graves were being dug for many of the Mariupol dead.

Accused of war crimes, Russian officials claimed that Ukrainian extremists had taken over the maternity hospital to use as a base, and that there were no patients or doctors left inside. Russia’s ambassador to the UN and the Russian embassy in London called the footage “fake news.”

The journalists of Associated Presswho have been reporting from inside the Mariupol blockade since the beginning of the war, documented the attack and saw the victims and damage firsthand. they recorded videos and photos of several bloodstained expectant mothers fleeing the blown up maternity wardscreaming doctors, crying children.

A car catches fire after the shelling of a hospital in Mariupol. (AP Photo/Evgeny Maloletka)

Then the team of AP located the victims on Friday and Saturday at the hospital to which they had been transferred, on the outskirts of Mariupol.

In a city that has been without food, water, electricity or heat for more than a week, electricity from emergency generators is reserved for operating rooms.

As the survivors described their ordeal, explosions outside shook the walls. The shelling and shooting in the area is sporadic but relentless. Emotions run high, even as the doctors and nurses concentrate on their work.

the blogger Marianna Vishegirskaya gave birth to a girl the day after the airstrike and put her arm around newborn Veronika while recounting Wednesday’s attack. After photos and video of her showing her walking down rubble-strewn stairs and clutching a blanket around her pregnant body, Russian authorities claimed she was an actress in a staged attack.

Mariana Vishegirskaya walks down the rubble-strewn stairs at the hospital that was bombed. She gave birth and managed to survive with her baby. (AP Photo/Evgeny Maloletka)

“It happened on March 9 at Mariupol Hospital No. 3. We were lying in the rooms when the glass, the frames, the windows and the walls crumbled”, he told the AP Vishegirskaya, who was still wearing the same polka dot pajamas she had on when she fled.

“We don’t know how it happened. We were in our rooms and some had time to cover up, others didn’t.”

Mariana Vishegirskaya in front of the bombed hospital. (AP/Mstyslav Chernov).

His ordeal was one among many in Mariupol, which has become a symbol of resistance to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s drive to crush democratic Ukraine and redesign the world map in your favor. The failure to subordinate Mariupol has pushed Russian forces to expand their offensive in other parts of Ukraine.

Mariana Vishegirskaya after giving birth to her daughter Veronika last Friday (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka).

In the meantime, the Azov sea port city of 430,000 inhabitantskey to creating a land bridge between Russia and Crimea, annexed by Russia, is slowly starving.

In the new makeshift maternity ward, each approaching delivery brings new tension.

“All mothers who give birth have lived a long time”said nurse Olga Vereshagina.

One of the distraught mothers lost a few toes in the bombing. Doctors performed a C-section on Friday, carefully removing her daughter from her and vigorously rubbing the newborn to stimulate signs of life.

After a few seconds of breathlessness, the baby cries.

Cheers of joy echo through the room. Newborn Alana cries, her mother cries, and medical workers wipe tears from their eyes.

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Source: Elcomercio