Hours-old newborns rushed to makeshift bomb shelter as Russia attacks Ukrainian hospital – World News
Tiny newborn babies were taken to the relative safety of a makeshift bomb shelter in the depths of a children’s hospital in Dnipro, amid fears of Russian attacks
Instead of the warmth and safety of the neonatal clinic, the tiny tots slept in a basement (
Image: Dr Denis Surkov)
Newborn babies, some just hours old, were rushed from the safety of a neonatal unit in Ukraine to a makeshift shelter to avoid PutinтАЩs bombs.
About twelve of the tiny infants were taken by brave doctors and nurses to the basement of the building in Dnipro.
Inside, they were carefully cradled by staff from Dnipropetrovsk Oblast ChildrenтАЩs Hospital who feared for the lives of their young charges, The Sun reports.┬а
It follows reports of other hospitals ┬аsuffering missile damage in cities under siege by heavily armed Kremlin forces.
Dr Denis Surkov, 51, chief of the neonatal unit at Dnipropetrovsk Oblast ChildrenтАЩs Hospital said of the bunker: тАЬThis is the neonatal intensive care unit. In a bomb ┬нshelter.
тАЬCan you imagine? This is our reality.тАЭ
Earlier it was reported that the oncology centre of another hospital was left in flames after Russian forces opened fire on the building.
Infants in Dnipro were taken downstairs, away from the danger of Putin’s bombs
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Image:
Dr Denis Surkov)
Nurses took the tiny babies downstairs to a makeshift shelter
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Image:
Dr Denis Surkov)
Shocking footage shot in Melitopol, in the south east of the war-torn nation, showed heavy fire close to the hospital before explosions in the building.
The site then immediately starts to burn before more gunshots are aimed at the centre – used to help those suffering with cancer – leaving dozens of bullet holes.
Russian missiles are said to have destroyed a nursery elsewhere in Ukraine, with drone footage seeming to show the bodies of two adults surrounded by blood outside the building.
Outraged Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Twitter : тАЬTodayтАЩs Russian attacks on a kindergarten and an orphanage are war crimes and violations of the Rome Statute.#
тАЬTogether with the General ProsecutorтАЩs Office we are collecting this and other facts, which we will immediately send to the Hague.
тАЬResponsibility is inevitable.”
Pictures were also shared of scared Ukrainian children being led down into metro systems to shelter from Russian shelling as air raid sirens sound in sombre echoes of World War Two.
The UK will personally sanction Vladimir Putin and his foreign minister Sergei Lavrov after Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine , Downing Street has said.
Bomb damage to a property in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv
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Image:
PA)
Boris Johnson told a virtual meeting of Nato leaders that London will target the Russian President and his key ally in Moscow “imminently” over the Kremlin’s тАЬrevanchist missionтАЭ to overturn the post-Cold War order.
The PM also urged fellow leaders to “inflict maximum pain on President Putin and his regime” by ejecting Russia from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) network – something which could cripple RussiaтАЩs ability to trade with most of the world.
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