Horror pictures show girl, 6, in unicorn pyjamas who died in Russian airstrike as doctor says ‘Show this to Putin’
HORROR images have shown a six-year-old girl in unicorn pyjamas lying fatally wounded after a Russian airstrike.
Despite the medical team's heroic efforts the girl could not be saved, with an angry doctor saying, “Show this to Putin.”
The painful images show the little girl being rushed to the hospital in an ambulance in Mariupol after sustaining injuries in the shelling.
Her terrified mum, covered in blood and holding a pink scarf, was pictured weeping as she waited outside the ambulance as the medical team desperately tried to revive her.
"Take her out! Take her out! We can make it!" a hospital worker was heard shouting, while a nurse gave the girl an injection and another one tried reviving her with a defibrillator.
A doctor pumping oxygen into her told the reporter who was allowed inside: "Show this to Putin. The eyes of this child, and crying doctors.”
The tragic six-year-old, who has not been named, could not be saved.
Another girl, named only as Polina, was reportedly also killed alongside her parents in Kyiv.
The 4th grade pupil, thought to be around nine or ten, was killed by a Russian sabotage and reconnaissance group who opened fire on her parents' car, the city's mayor Volodymyr Bondarenko said.
The girl's brother is currently at Okhmatdyt children's hospital and her sister is in intensive care.
Sixteen children have so far died in the brutal war, Ukraine's Minister of Health Viktor Lyashko on Sunday.
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Lyashko branded the Russian troops "terrorists" for targeting civilians.
It is estimated 1,684 people have been injured in the fighting so far.
Russia has so far fired more than 350 missiles at Ukrainian cities, with many hitting civilians.
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Fighting continued in Ukraine over the weekend with explosions heard in cities across the country, including the capital Kyiv, Kharkiv, Cherkasy, and Chernihiv.
Russian troops have failed to take Kyiv with fighters still mounting a firm resistance after five days.
It comes as...
- Ukrainian troops have destroyed a convoy of Russian special forces made up of Chechen fighters
- Fierce fighting has been taking place in Kharkiv where Ukrainian commanders say they are in "full control"
- A blitz from Russian forces to hold a crucial road junction five miles west of Kyiv city centre was beaten off
- Soldiers thought to have been killed after telling Russians to "go f**k yourselves" may still be alive
- Missiles rained down on the country in the fourth night of war
- Western allies agreed to boot Russian banks out of the Swift system
- Roman Abramovich gave up control of Chelsea football club
- Freedom fighters from around the world were invited to join Ukraine’s army today and take on Putin's troops.
- A former Miss Ukraine "has taken up arms" to fight against the Russian invasion
Even though Putin's forces have reportedly seized the city of Berdyansk they failed to take the country’s second city Kharkiv, where The Sun witnessed them being beaten back with tanks and rockets.
Last night the capital's mayor Vitali Klitschko denied Kyiv is "encircled" by the Russians.
Peace talks are due to be held between Moscow and Kyiv on the Belarusian-Ukrainian border.
Diplomats from Kyiv and Moscow are set to meet "without preconditions" near the Prypyat River.
President Zelenskyy's office said Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko "has taken responsibility for ensuring that all planes, helicopters and missiles stationed on Belarusian territory remain on the ground during the Ukrainian delegation's travel, talks and return".
Ukraine's foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba said the talks were called following a conversation between Zelenskyy and Lukashenko after it was feared Belarus was preparing its troops to join Moscow's invasion.
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It comes after Putin put his nuclear forces on high alert after warning the West "may face the greatest consequences in history".
The Russian tyrant is said to be "furious" he's not been able to subdue Ukraine and lashed out at NATO for its "unfriendly measures" he says forced him into the chilling nuclear gamble.
