UKRAINE UNDER SIEGE
A HANDFUL of doctors cradle newborns in a makeshift bomb shelter. The infants are from a neonatal intensive care unit at a children’s hospital in Dnipro in eastern Ukraine which was evacuated when missiles started raining down on the city.
Babies swaddled in blankets lie on rough-and-ready beds, some with oxygen tanks and heart monitors beside them, and hospital staff are doing what they can to keep the little ones alive as all hell breaks loose outside.
This is just one of the harrowing scenes to have emerged from Ukraine since Russian president Vladimir Putin invaded the country that’s long been a thorn in his side.
Ukrainian teacher Olena Kurilo became the early face of the suffering when her apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, was destroyed by a Russian missile.
A picture of her bloodied face and bandaged head went viral as the world watched developments with growing outrage. “Never have I thought in my life I’d look death in the face,” Olena (52) told reporters. “I could never imagine it in
