Ukraine: Pregnant woman hit by Russian bombing of Mariupol maternity hospital dies with her baby

[BigmanPigman]

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-health-europe-c0f2f859296f9f02be24fc9edfca1085

A pregnant woman and her baby have died after Russia bombed the maternity hospital where she was meant to give birth, The Associated Press has learned. Images of the woman being rushed to an ambulance on a stretcher had circled the world, epitomizing the horror of an attack on humanity’s most innocent.

In video and photos shot Wednesday by AP journalists after the attack on the hospital, the woman was seen stroking her bloodied lower abdomen as rescuers rushed her through the rubble in the besieged city of Mariupol, her blanched face mirroring her shock at what had just happened. It was among the most brutal moments so far in Russia’s now 19-day-old war on Ukraine.

The woman was rushed to another hospital, yet closer to the frontline, where doctors labored to keep her alive. Realizing she was losing her baby, medics said, she cried out to them, “Kill me now!”

* MSNBC said that Russia has reported that this ia fake.

[elleng]

1. Was this Veronica?

'she who brings victory, true image'

[NutmegYankee]

2. No. Different woman who was carried out on stretcher.

[elleng]

3. Thanks

I've lit a candle, in honor of the many.

[NutmegYankee]

4. This poor woman had been hit in the hip.

Pelvis was crushed and femur disconnected. Her baby was a still birth and she died minutes later.

[BigmanPigman]

6. That's awful!

[COL Mustard]

5. Just another sad example of Russian

Barbarity and another set of war crimes.

I know that the Ukrainian use of POWs for propaganda is a violation of the Geneva Convention, but that pales in comparison to what the Russians are doing.

[Samrob]

7. Nothing heard from the USA religious right??

The anti-abortionists here have been silent about Russian brutality toward pregnant women. Trump, who pretended to be so concerned about the abortion issue has said nothing about his buddy knowingly bombing facilities holding pregnant women and children.

[brer cat]

8. The silence is deafening.