His photo has become a symbol of the drama of civilians fleeing the bombs in Ukraine, but also of the extreme strength and dignity with which the population is facing the ruthless Russian attacks.
She is Marianna Podgurskaya, a pregnant Ukrainian beauty blogger photographed on the run from the Mariupol children's hospital bombed on March 9 by the Russians, and who last night gave birth to her baby girl, whom she named Veronica.
This was made known by the Ukrainian journalist Olga Tokariuk, who is in contact with a person from her family. "They are fine, but in Mariupol it is very cold and the bombings do not stop," the journalist wrote on Twitter without obviously providing details on the place of birth.
Yesterday on the blogger, whose photo with a bloody face had gone around the world, the fake news of the Russian propaganda was shot down according to which Marianna had been hired as an "actress" to play the role of the pregnant Ukrainian under the bombs in favor from the camera of photographer Evgeniy Maloletka, a freelancer who also works for the PA, defined by Moscow as a pro-Kiev "propagandist".
Russian Foreign Minister Serghei Lavrov had stated that the Mariupol hospital was actually empty and used as a base for the Azov battalion "(one of the nationalist military units of the Ukrainian army, ed), news later denied by fact-checking operations .
(Unioneonline / vl)
