Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been multiplying the lists of dead and wounded for more than three weeks. Three weeks in which words have been left over, but some images managed to express more than eloquent speeches and declarations of intent.
The image released this week by UNICEF of a mother with her little baby after a Russian bombing is one of them.
In it you can see Olga, a young woman with short hair, with a bandage on her head and multiple injuries, while breastfeeding her son, in a hospital bed. Next to her is a man who is the father of the child.
The story of the couple was told by the Facebook page of the Ohmatdit Children's Hospital, located in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital that still resists the onslaught of Vladimir Putin's troops.
The family arrived at the hospital on Friday morning, after being injured in a Russian bombing in their district. “Dmytro, the father, said that together with his wife they heard gunshots all night, which became stronger over time.” Until a shell flew close to where the mother and the little one, barely 5 months old, were located.
“When I went down to the yard, I saw that a shell had hit the kindergarten next to our house. There were no more roofs, windows or doors in any of the houses nearby; the pieces of glass flew directly towards us,” recalled Dmytro, quoted by the hospital.
Olga reacted by covering the baby with her own body, which miraculously managed to save her son. She, on the other hand, could not help but receive numerous shrapnel wounds.
The doctors treated the father for a wound on his leg, and performed surgery on Olga, in addition to removing the fragments that were still in her body. At this time, the family continues treatment in the hospital.
Last week, another iconic image of the cruelty of war had traveled the world, albeit with a less happy ending than that of Olga, Dmytro and their little girl daughter. It was that of a pregnant woman who died after Russia bombed the maternity hospital where she was supposed to give birth.
His image being transferred on a stretcher to an ambulance after the bombing embodied the horror of what was experienced in the city of Mariupol, where the Russian offensive is currently focused.
Realizing that she was losing her baby, the doctors said, she shouted at them: “Kill me now!” Thirty minutes of resuscitation was not enough and the woman finally died.
The story of these families is that of thousands of people in Ukraine. Almost 850 Ukrainian civilians have been killed and 1,400 injured since the beginning of the Russian invasion, according to the latest updated balance sheet by the United Nations High Commissioner United Nations for Human Rights, published this Saturday. The deceased have been identified as 155 men, 119 women, 21 boys and seven girls, as well as 36 boys and 509 adults pending identification. The injured have been identified as 142 men, 107 women, 18 girls and nine boys, as well as 51 children and 1,072 adults pending identification.
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