Ukrainian War: Pregnant Women Move Out of Mariupol Hospital Shelter in Bombed Theater | World news

It took ten days for the world to learn if anyone had survived the bombings of a theater in Mariupol.

Images filmed from inside the building show people covered in dust, clearly in shock, but alive. Only now have those mobile photos been taken to the outside world.

On March 16, a theater that housed more than a thousand civilians bombed in the heavily disputed southern Ukrainian city.

The word “child” was clearly marked in the ground outside and was visible from the air.

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Pregnant women were sheltered in bombed-out theater

For the first time, Sky News has also been told about pregnant women being rescued from a bombed maternity hospital in Mariupol was moved to the theater for safety.

Seven days later, the theater was also hit.

We spoke to Diana Berg who lived next to the theater but escaped the city before it was bombed.

“I know there were pregnant women who were brought from the maternity ward to the third hospital that was bombed the days before,” she says.

“They were brought to the theater because it was a big building and they put these pregnant women with children in the locker rooms for actors. It was in this part that they were bombed. They were in the theater, right at the point where “It was hit. We know that.”

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Hospital number three in Mariupol was a children’s hospital and maternity ward. Journalists were still in the city when it was hit by a Russian air strike on March 9.

Photos appeared showing injured pregnant women trying to escape for their lives. According to Ms. Berg, some of those women were then taken to the theater.

So far we do not know how many people were killed in the theater attack.

At least 300 lives lost

Mariupol City Council has said according to eyewitnesses at least 300 people lost their lives. It is not clear how many more are still buried here.

Ms Berg says there are so many bodies in Mariupol now, not all of them are buried and body parts are hanging from trees. Those who are still alive in this nightmare have a little way to hear.

But British photographer Max Clarke has recently been left with new images of the reality that people live.

“Much of what happens on this side of the contact line has been reported below,” Mr Clarke said. “It’s almost indescribable how devastated that city is.”

“There is not a single building that has not yet been burned or unbroken. The people are just traumatized and sprayed. They live without electricity or food or heat. The temperatures have only recently gone up, but it has been below zero until last week. “

The city lost almost all electricity weeks ago, there is no internet, virtually no telephone signal. The information flowing in and out of the city is almost non-existent.

Caught in the living hell

People who managed to leave Mariupol told Sky News that they did not know whether the country was under Russian control or not until they escaped.

He added: “The bodies are now buried for the most part, but there are still some. You can certainly smell those that cannot be reached by debris. There are dogs that feed on lumps of human bones. “Pieces of people. There are new trenches everywhere.”

“There are burnt out cars and scorched cars with the scrapped remains of their drivers still there. We saw one black body when we drove in and the next day it was missing limbs and had several red exposed flesh because the dogs were eating it. had night. It’s pretty hell. “

The scenes he describes are unimaginable.

The people trapped in Mariupol can not speak for themselves now – but they must be saved from this living hell.