'Show this to Putin': Young girl, 6, dies in Russian shelling attack
In the port city of Mariupol, where Ukrainians are trying to fend off a Russian advance, an ambulance raced into a city hospital, carrying a six-year-old girl mortally injured in Russian shelling.
She was pale.
Her brown hair was pulled back with a rubber band.
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Medics perform CPR on a girl injured during the shelling of a residential area in the city of Mariupol. The girl did not survive. AP / Evgeniy Maloletka
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Her bloody pyjama pants were decorated with cartoon unicorns.
She was brought in with her wounded father, his head bloodied and bandaged.
A medical team pumped her chest, fighting desperately to revive her.
Her mother stood outside the ambulance, weeping.
“Take her out! Take her out! We can make it!” a hospital worker shouted, pushing a gurney to the ambulance.
The girl was raced inside and doctors and nurses huddled around her.
One gave her an injection.
Another tried to revive her with a defibrillator.
A nurse wept.
A doctor in blue medical scrubs, pumping oxygen into her, looked straight at the camera of an Associated Press video journalist who had been allowed inside.
“Show this to Putin,” he said angrily.
“The eyes of this child, and crying doctors.”
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Refugees fleeing from Ukraine, arrive in Budapest, Hungary, after Russian invaded. AP / Anna Szilagyi
The girl, whose name was not immediately known, could not be saved.
The doctor reached gently over her face to close her eyes.
Her body was left alone in the room, covered by her brightly coloured polyester jacket, now spattered with blood.
At least 102 civilians have been killed and hundreds wounded, the United Nations said today, while warning that figure is probably a vast undercount.
Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at least 16 children were among the dead.
More than a half-million people have fled the country since the invasion, according to the UN, many of them going to Poland, Romania and Hungary.
The Russian military has consistently denied targeting residential areas despite abundant evidence of shelling of residential buildings, schools and hospitals.
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