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Pregnant woman and baby who went viral earlier in Ukraine war are KILLED in Russian attack

The video shared by AP showed the woman rubbing her seriously injured lower abdomen while medics rushed her to another hospital

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT

In a heart-wrenching incident, a pregnant woman from Ukraine’s Mariupol city has died along with her baby after Russia attacked a maternity hospital. A video of the distressing incident that happened on Wednesday, March 9, was shared by Associated Press that showed the unnamed woman rubbing her seriously injured lower abdomen while officials rushed her to another hospital.

After taking her to another hospital, doctors reportedly tried everything to keep her alive. But when the mother realized that she would lose her baby, she screamed, “Kill me now!” Surgeon Timur Marin said that due to the bombing, the pelvis of the woman, whose identity is not known yet, had mortified and her hip was separated from the body. Doctors reportedly managed to deliver the baby via C-section but it showed “no signs of life.”

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Doctors then tried to revive the woman but couldn't save her. On Saturday, March 12, Marin mentioned: “More than 30 minutes of resuscitation of the mother didn’t produce results. Both died.” The Associated Press reported that “in the chaos after Wednesday’s airstrike, medics didn’t have time to get the woman’s name before her husband and father came to take away her body. At least someone came to retrieve her, they said — so she didn’t end up in the mass graves being dug for many of Mariupol’s growing number of dead.”

The incident has attracted a lot of attention online with people condemning Russia’s barbarism. A user tweeted: “There's no two ways around this folks, we're not doing enough in the west to protect our friends in Ukraine. We're failing them.” Another user wrote: “This is more than tragic.” A third user said, “Horrible behaviour by Russia! Where is humanity gone? Bad,evil, wicked,cruel deeds get punished in the same coin!”

One user noted, “Its genocide.russia will destroy Ukraine.” A second one remarked, “#PutinIsaWarCriminal PUTIN ATTACKED A HOSPITAL AND BLEW UP PREGNANT MOTHERS AND BABIES HE IS KILLING WOMAN AND CHILDERN #PutinIsaWarCriminal #PutinWarCrimes #RUSSIA YOUR RUBLES ARE WORTH ZERO BECAUSE OF PUTIN YOU CANT AFFORD TO BURRY YOUR DEAD SONS YOUR SOLDIERS YOUR BROKE.”

A tweet read: “Pregnant woman is dead in Mariupol, Ukraine. It’s impossible to watch!!!! Stop this war!!!! Stop buying Russian energy, CLOSE the sky! It’s absolutely heartbreaking 💔 @Bundeskanzler @POTUS @ABlinken @BorisJohnson @eucopresident @vonderleyen @antonioguterres @jensstoltenberg.” A tweet from Liubov Tsybulska, an advisor to @MFA_Ukraine , @GeneralStaffUA, added, “Wounded pregnant woman from Mariupol died today. Her unborn child too. Russia kills the living, the dead and the unborn. Yes, it is genocide. They don’t need our land, they want to destroy us for what we are, for our identity.”

On the other hand, another Ukrainian woman became a mother amid all the chaos after Wednesday's bombing. Blogger Mariana Vishegirskaya delivered a girl on March 10. Recounting the horror she faced, she said, “It happened on March 9 in Hospital No. 3 in Mariupol. We were laying in wards when glasses, frames, windows and walls flew apart. We don’t know how it happened. We were in our wards and some had time to cover themselves, some didn’t.”