This is the brutality of war: The photo the world cannot look away from.
Published on Mamamia
March 15, 2022
The photograph will be seared into my mind forever:
A young woman lay atop a stretcher, her arm clutching at her swollen pregnant belly. Her pants are stained with blood and she stares blankly into the sky above. Four men carry her through the rubble where the Russian bombs detonated. The earth is blackened, covered with bare branches and twigs. Smoke billows in the background against the building which has now been reduced to a shell of post-it notes.
The building that was once Maternity Hospital No 3 in Mariupol, Ukraine.