Heartbreaking footage of newborn babies in a makeshift bomb shelter at a children’s hospital in Ukraine as Putin’s rockets fall from above
- Newborns from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Children’s Hospital in Dnipro, Eastern Ukraine, were transferred to a makeshift bomb shelter
- The video was shot by medical staff on the lower level of the building on Thursday
- About a dozen babies wrapped in blankets could be seen, some rocking
- The Dnieper was the subject of missile strikes when the Russian invasion of Ukraine began
Newborn babies in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro were filmed being thrown into a makeshift bomb shelter at a hospital as Russian forces invaded the country.
About a dozen babies being cared for in the neonatal ward were hastily moved to what looked like a storage room in the basement of a hospital in the eastern part of the country.
Nurses were seen caring for the babies, with several holding them in their arms, rocking them, and some even smiling.
Others could be seen using inflatable sacks to supply air to babies who have difficulty breathing.
Newborns from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital, pictured in Dnipro, eastern Ukraine, were transferred to a makeshift bomb shelter
The photo shows the corridors of the city children’s clinical hospital in Dnepropetrovsk (photo file)
The babies, who looked from hours to just a few days old, were wrapped in various colored blankets and laid on makeshift beds.
Everyone seemed to be behaving best, with no one crying as the camera moved around the room.
“This is NICU. To the bomb shelter. Can you imagine?’ said Dr. Denis Surkov, head of the neonatal ward at the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital. New York Times in a text message. This is our reality.
The babies were taken to a makeshift bomb shelter after the Ukrainian city was hit by rockets when Russia invaded the country early Thursday morning.
“We were nervous, very confused,” said 51-year-old Dr. Surkov.
The Dnieper was among more than a dozen cities and towns shelled by Russia on Thursday.
The missiles hit targets in the Dnieper, Kharkiv and a number of other places.
Russian forces are said to have destroyed more than 70 military targets in Ukraine, including 11 airports, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement Thursday.
View of a damaged apartment building after Russia launched a large-scale military operation against Ukraine in Kiev
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