A man runs into a hospital with a small bloody bundle in his arms, behind him a young woman with a devastated face almost chases him. Marina e Fedor Jacko they are the parents of little Kirill, wrapped in a blue blanket, who are desperately trying to save their 18-month-old child, a victim of the Russian bombing in the Mariupol area, in southeastern Ukraine. But in a hospital with no more electricity, where visits are made in the light of cell phones, the doctors are left helpless and there is nothing more to be done for Kirill.
The heartbreaking images of the very young desperate parents, immortalized by the PA, immortalized by the PA, have become one of the symbols of the tragic suffering of civilians in the country subjected to Russian bombing in the international media.
The photos are making the rounds of the network on the second consecutive day in which the humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to escape are interrupted by bombing, Russian according to the Ukrainians and Ukrainians according to the Russians. Because everything in this war between Russia and Ukraine, even the attack on civilians, becomes an occasion for the exchange of accusations between the warring parties.
According to Eduard Basurin, spokesman for the separatist militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Ukrainian nationalists of the Azov Battalion fired on a column of civilians evacuated from Mariupol. “Today, while trying to leave the city of Mariupol along the humanitarian corridor on the M23 highway in the direction of Novoazovsk, Ukrainian militants from the Azov Nationalist Battalion fired on a column of civilians,” Basurin told reporters. For the Ukrainians, it was the Russians who prevented the evacuation of civilians by bombing.
Underlining the drama of cities on the war front (such as Mariupol) are the words of the International Red Cross. In the midst of devastating scenes of human suffering in Marioupol, the second attempt today to begin the evacuation of 200,000 people from the city was interrupted “.