YOUNG MOTHER COLLAPSES AFTER 18-MONTH-OLD TODDLER KILLED IN RUSSIAN ATTACK

Sun 06 March 2022:

“Why, why, why?” wailed a distressed young Ukrainian mother as she slumped in her boyfriend’s arms.

After medics failed to save her toddler, who had been injured in the head by shrapnel.

Kirill Yatsko, an 18-month-old boy, was killed when his home in Mariupol was shelled during the Russian invasion.

As Kirill’s heart appears to have stopped and a defibrillator is used, doctors place an oxygen mask over his face and massage his chest.

But he can’t be rescued, and a doctor sits on his haunches at the far end of the room, staring down at the floor, trying to make sense of what he’s just seen.

Outside, in the corridor, Marina is inconsolable. She stands up, cries “why, why, why”, and turns to her boyfriend who, seeing she is not steady on her feet, takes her in his arms and holds her up as she cries on his shoulder.

Marina and Fedor go in to see Kirill, whose body is wrapped in a blanket.

His mother unfolds the blanket, gently touches her dead son’s cheek and kisses him, before pulling the cover back over his face.

The Russian military is sieging Mariupol, Ukraine’s most important city, in order to tighten their hold on the country.

Despite Russia’s own agreement to stop fire, Ukrainian officials accused Russia of shelling the city and civilian passages out of it on Saturday.

According to Western diplomats, Russian tactics have shifted to include increased attacks on people and residential areas.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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