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 lasted more than half an hour, were ineffective. The mother was resuscitated for half an hour or more with no success. They were both killed."
A pregnant mother has died, as has her unborn child, whose image being stretchered out her Putin-bombed maternity ward became one of the war's most devastating sights.
The doctors who are attempting to preserve them both spoke this morning about the enormous efforts they are making to save them.
The woman's pelvis was crushed and her hip was detached, according to surgeon Timur Marin. The infant was delivered through caesarean section, but the surgeon stated it exhibited "no indications of life." They then turned their attention to the mother.
'More than 30 minutes of mother's resuscitation yielded no results,' Mr Marin said on Saturday. 'They both died,' says the narrator.
Medics didn't have time to learn the woman's name before her husband and father arrived to take her body away in the commotion that followed Wednesday's air attack.
They say someone came to get her so she wouldn't wind up in the mass graves being dug for many of Mariupol's expanding population.
After being accused of war crimes, Russian officials stated that the maternity facility had been taken over by Ukrainian extremists and that no patients or medical personnel were left inside.
The photographs were labelled "false news" by Russia's ambassador to the United Nations and the Russian Embassy in London.
Journalists from the Associated Press, who have been reporting from within the blockaded Mariupol since the beginning of the war, witnessed the attack and seen the victims and damage firsthand.
They recorded and photographed multiple bloodstained pregnant ladies leaving the blown-out maternity unit, with medics yelling and children screaming.
On Friday and Saturday, the AP crew tracked down the victims at the hospital where they had been moved on the outskirts of Mariupol.
Electricity from emergency generators is allocated for operating rooms in a city without food, water, power, or heat for more than a week.
Outside, blasts rattled the walls as survivors detailed their tragedy.
Shelling and gunfire are sporadic but persistent in the neighbourhood.
Even while doctors and nurses focus on their duties, emotions are running high.
Mariana Vishegirskaya, a blogger, gave birth to a girl the day after the explosion and placed her arm around her infant Veronika as she described the attack.
Photos and video later surfaced of her climbing debris-strewn stairs while hugging a blanket around her frame.
Officials in Russia alleged she was a prop in a planned attack.
'It happened on March 9 in Mariupol's Hospital Number Three. We were in wards when glasses, frames, windows, and walls flew apart,' Vishegirskaya added, still dressed in the polka dot pyjamas she wore when she fled.
'We have no idea how that happened.' We were in our wards, and some of us had enough time to cover ourselves, while others did not.'
Her suffering was one of many in Mariupol, which has emerged as a symbol of defiance against Russian President Vladimir Putin's efforts to smash democratic Ukraine and rewrite the international map in his favour.
Russian soldiers have expanded their offensive further in Ukraine as a result of their inability to subjugate Mariupol.
Meanwhile, the 430,000-strong Azov Sea port city, which is critical to the construction of a land bridge connecting Russia and Russian-annexed Crimea, is slowly starving.
Each imminent childbirth creates increased strain in the makeshift new maternity unit.
'All birthing mothers have been through a lot,' nurse Olga Vereshagina said.
Russian and Ukrainian officials delivered their most bullish appraisals of progress in their negotiations on Ukraine's crisis yesterday, implying that a satisfactory outcome may be achieved within days.
Ukraine has stated that it is open to engage but will not submit to any demands or accept any deadlines.
Before a video conference with representatives from both nations on Monday, a prominent Ukrainian negotiator said Moscow is starting to 'speak positively.'
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also stated that he would meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin for peace negotiations, stating that while this is a "difficult route," it is "necessary."
Despite Putin's forces continued their onslaught on Ukraine on Sunday, with missiles striking a big Ukrainian military station just 12 miles from the NATO member Poland's border, killing 35 people, a Russian negotiator claimed there had been "significant progress" in the discussions.
Neither side specified the scope of any agreement, but Russia has previously demanded that Ukraine cease military action, change its constitution to enshrine neutrality, recognise Crimea as Russian territory, and recognise the separatist republics of Donetsk and Lugansk as independent territories in order to join the EU or NATO.
'We will not surrender in principle on any principles,' said Ukrainian negotiator and presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak. Russia is now aware of this. Russia has already begun to engage in productive dialogue.'
'I believe we will accomplish some outcomes practically in a matter of days,' he continued.
'Our hope is that Ukraine will receive the essential result... for peace and security... in this struggle, in this difficult negotiating process,' Zelensky said in a video message early Monday.
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