“This maternity hospital had sponsors and donors who’d worked tirelessly to support it for years. In one moment all of this was gone.”
“When we try to send aid, the Russian military forces target us,” explains Tania, a 35-year-old charity PR manager in Ukraine. Prior to the Russian invasion, her day-to-day job consisted of coordinating medicine and equipment for Ukrainian maternity hospitals. Now, with the city of Mariupol under siege, her job is becoming impossible.
For two whole days, my colleagues and I were in shock. We didn’t know how we could continue to do our work. With war comes total chaos. . It claimed that there were no women or doctors in the hospital at the time and suggested that the images of women being stretchered out were just staged. They claimed it was just like a film production and that all of the women in the photos were models or actresses.. On Sunday Mariana Vishegirskaya gave birth to a baby daughter and she received abusive comments on Instagram with claims saying “you’re a model”, “you’re a b*tch”, “this was all staged and it is not true.
The city is blocked from the inside and there is no way to enter. 20,000 people have evacuated but that’s only possible for those who have access to private vehicles. Those who do not have cars cannot leave. One of the things we’re now focused on is helping people get everyday medicines, like insulin, because their lives depend on it. We’ve been fundraising so that we can get humanitarian help from abroad and change the supply structure in the absence of having pharmacies, which are now in ruins.
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