MARIUPOL, UKRAINE – In the port city of Mariupol, where Ukrainians are trying to fend off a Russian advance, an ambulance rammed into the city’s hospital on Sunday, carrying a six-year-old girl who was seriously injured in the crash. Russian shelling.
She was pale. Her brown hair was tied back with an elastic band. Her bloody pajamas are decorated with cartoon unicorns. She was brought in with her wounded father, his head covered in blood and bandages.
A medical team pumped her breasts, fighting desperately to revive her. Her mother stood outside the ambulance crying.
“Get her out! Get her out! We can do it! ” shouted a hospital worker, pushing a small dog into the ambulance.
The girl was rushed inside and doctors and nurses gathered around her. Someone injected her. Another tried to revive her with a defibrillator. A nurse cries. A doctor in a blue medical suit, pumping oxygen to her, looked directly into the camera of an Associated Press video reporter, who had been allowed inside.
“Show Putin this,” he said angrily. “The eyes of this child, and the doctors are crying.”
The girl, whose name was not immediately known, could not be saved. The doctor put his hand gently over her face to make her close her eyes.
Her body was left alone in the room, covered by a light polyester coat, now covered in blood.
