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David Kent

Mother and newborn baby hit during Russian airstrikes on maternity hospital pass away

A mother and and baby have both died after being pulled from rubble of a hospital bombing in Mariupol last Wednesday.

Pregnant women and children were trapped under the wreckage with rescuers carrying out desperate searches for days

The widely-condemned attack was blasted as "genocide" by the Ukrainian president in the aftermath.

A photo of the mother lying stricken on a stretcher while being taken away from the scene of the shelling highlighted the awful event to the world.

However, the Associated Press learned on Monday morning that both the mother and her newborn baby have since passed away.

The publication says that surgeon Timur Marin found the woman’s pelvis crushed and hip detached.

Medics delivered the baby via caesarean section, but it showed “no signs of life”, the surgeon said.

“More than 30 minutes of resuscitation of the mother didn’t produce results,” Mr Marin said on Saturday, per AP.

“Both died.”

President Volodymr Zelenskyy, in an address to the public in the aftermath, said: "Everything that the occupiers are doing to Mariupol is beyond atrocities. Europeans! Ukrainians! Mariupol! Today we must be united in condemning this war crime of Russia, which reflects all the evil that the occupiers have brought to our land. All of the destroyed cities and everything they've done.

"An aerial bomb on a maternity hospital is the conclusive evidence that what is happening is a genocide of Ukrainians. Europeans! You won't be able to say that you didn't see what happened to Ukrainians in Mariupol.

"You saw. You know.

"Consequently, you must strengthen sanctions against Russia so that it never has the chance to continue this genocide. You need to pressure Russia so that it sits at the negotiating table and ends this barbarous war."

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