Heroic Ukrainian mum saves baby’s life by taking Russian shrapnel hits to body
BANDAGED and bloodied, a mum nurses the baby she saved from Russian shellfire by shielding the tot with her own body.
Brave Olga — badly injured by shrapnel in Putin’s blitz on Kyiv — cradles her month-old child as a man thought to be her partner comforts them.
Amazingly, the baby was believed to be unhurt thanks to the quick-thinking courage of its Ukrainian mother.
The two were being cared for yesterday at Kyiv’s Ohmatdyt children’s hospital.
Journalist Anastasiia Lapatina, who works on English-language newspaper the Kyiv Independent, said the baby was well.
She added that the pair were being treated at Ohmatdyt children’s hospital in the city.
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She also said the baby was unharmed.
Olga, pictured with a man thought to be her partner, was wrapped in a foil blanket on a hospital bed as medics attended to her.
It comes as Ukrainian forces killed another top Russian general, the fifth to die since Putin's troops invaded the country last month.
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