MARIUPOL, UKRAINE --
Within the port metropolis of Mariupol, the place Ukrainians try to fend off a Russian advance, an ambulance raced right into a metropolis hospital Sunday, carrying a 6-year-old lady mortally injured in Russian shelling.
She was pale. Her brown hair was pulled again with a rubber band. Her bloody pyjama pants had been adorned with cartoon unicorns. She was introduced in along with her wounded father, his head bloodied and bandaged.
A medical crew pumped her chest, combating desperately to revive her. Her mom stood outdoors the ambulance, weeping.
“Take her out! Take her out! We are able to make it!” a hospital employee shouted, pushing a gurney to the ambulance.
The lady was raced inside and docs and nurses huddled round her. One gave her an injection. One other tried to revive her with a defibrillator. A nurse wept. A health care provider in blue medical scrubs, pumping oxygen into her, regarded straight on the digicam of an Related Press videojournalist who had been allowed inside.
“Present this to Putin,” he mentioned angrily. “The eyes of this little one, and crying docs.”
The lady, whose title was not instantly identified, couldn't be saved. The physician reached gently over her face to shut her eyes.
Her physique was left alone within the room, lined by her brightly colored polyester jacket, now spattered with blood.
A person walks with harbor cranes within the background on the commerce port in Mariupol, Ukraine, on Feb. 23, 2022. (AP Picture/Sergei Grits)