As she knew her child would not survive and medics raced to rescue her, a mother-to-be begged physicians to "kill me now" in an image that stunned the world. On Wednesday, she was badly injured when Putin blasted a maternity ward in the conflict's most heinous act of war. The picture of her being carried injured on a stretcher has become one of the conflict's defining images thus far. Medics stated she cried out 'Kill me now' as they sought to save her after realising she was losing her baby. According to a surgeon who was treating her, a pregnant woman who was injured when a maternity facility in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was bombed on Wednesday has died, along with her newborn baby. Timur Marin, a surgeon from Mariupol, told Ukrainian television: "We conducted a caesarean delivery and took a child with no indications of life while she was being resuscitated and anti-shock measures were being implemented. The child's resuscitation efforts, which...
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