A pregnant woman whose image went viral after Vladimir Putin’s forces attacked a Ukrainian hospital has died along with her baby, medics say.

Images of the woman on a stretcher had been beamed around the world and captured the brutal nature of Russia’s attack.

Horrifying images and footage from last Wednesday showed the woman stroking her bloodied lower abdomen as rescuers rushed her through the rubble of Mariupol.

It has been widely seen as one of the most bleakest moments in the 19-day-old war on Ukraine.

Now the story of what happened to the unnamed woman has emerged, with medics revealing that that she cried out to medics: ‘Kill me now’, as she realised she was losing the baby.

Surgeon Timur Marin found the woman’s pelvis crushed and hip detached.

Medics delivered the baby via caesarean section, but it showed ‘no signs of life’, he explained. They then began work on the mother.

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‘More than 30 minutes of resuscitation of the mother didn’t produce results,’ he said.

‘Both died.’

In the carnage after the air strike – which sparked international condemnation – medics did not have time to get the woman’s name before her husband and father arrived to take away her body.

Without that, the woman may have ended up in the mass graves being dug for many of Mariupol’s growing number of dead.

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