In the photos, Olga, who did not give her last name, is close to her partner. Her head is wrapped in a bandage and her face is covered in scratches.
she described feeling panic after shrapnel and glass from the blast flew around the room in a Reuters interview on Sunday.
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As blood spilled on her baby Her partner Dmytro told her: “Olga, it’s your blood – it’s not hers.”
Olga had just woken up to bathe and feed her baby Victoria. She sat with her knees pulled up and Victoria on her lap, covered by a blanket – “and that kept the baby alive. I got them covered just in time,” she told the outlet. “And then Dmytro jumped up and covered us too.”
Ohmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv wrote on social media on Friday that the family was hospitalized this morning for injuries caused by shrapnel from the blast near their home. Doctors treated the father’s injured leg and “performed an operation on Olga, removing several fragments stuck in her body,” the hospital said.
“I didn’t wake up from the explosion. I woke up to Olga’s screams and the sound of breaking glass,” Dmytro told Reuters. “I didn’t even hear the explosion because the sound of the glass was much louder.”
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Ohmatdyt Children’s Hospital wrote on Instagram that Dmytro and Olga “heard heavy shells at night – they got closer and closer until they finally hit the building” near their home in the morning.
“When I went outside, I saw that the shell hit a kindergarten near our home,” the hospital quoted Dmytro as saying. “There are no more ceilings, and the houses nearby have no windows or doors. The shards of glass flew straight at us.”
A doctor in Ohmatdyt, Anatoliy Tymoshenko, told Reuters that Olga’s breasts were bruised and that she had “several deep wounds on her forehead” but that “the baby was not hurt.”
“We have no choice but to stay positive, just believing that it was the worst, the most horrible thing that could have happened in our lives,” Dmytro told Reuters.
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In another incident nearly two weeks ago in Mariupol, a city about 500 miles south-east of Kyiv, a suspected Russian airstrike destroyed a maternity hospital and a photo of a pregnant woman being carried on a stretcher by rescue workers lifted the devastated human into similar ones Wisely highlighted effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Associated Press later reported that the mother and her baby had died.
In a joint statement last week, leaders of the World Health Organization and two other United Nations agencies said: “More than 4,300 births have occurred in Ukraine since the start of the war and 80,000 Ukrainian women are expected to give birth in the next three months ‘ amid repeated attacks on healthcare facilities and ‘dangerously low’ supplies of ‘oxygen and medical supplies, including for treating pregnancy complications’.