An AP journalist described the death of a 6-year-old girl killed by Russian shelling: 'Her bloody pyjama pants were decorated with cartoon unicorns'

A team of medical workers in Ukranian tried to save the life of a 6-year-old girl who was killed by Russian shelling at a supermarket on Sunday.

The unnamed girl was rushed by ambulance to a hospital in Mariupol with her father, who was also wounded, during the Russian advance.

An AP reporter on the scene said the mother of the young girl stood weeping outside the ambulance as hospital workers tried to revive her.

She was pale. Her hair was pulled back. The journalist wrote that her pyjama pants were decorated with cartoons.

A crowd of doctors and nurses rushed the girl into the hospital, prodding her with injections and trying to revive her with a defibrillator, The AP reported.

One angry doctor turned to the camera of an AP video journalist who had been allowed inside as a nurse openly cried.

The medical worker said to show it to Putin.

The girl died despite the efforts of the hospital workers.

A doctor is reaching over to a young girl to close her eyes in a graphic video. She was covered in blood and covered in a bright pink coat.

The heartbreaking photos of the young girl's body show the devastating human cost of Russia's assault on Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russian forces of killing 16 children and injuring 45 others in the first five days of its invasion.

Zelensky said in a Telegram speech that 16 Ukrainian children died as a result of the Russian shelling. Every crime, every shelling that the invaders commit against us, brings us together even more.

Russian officials have not responded to the claim but continue to deny that civilians are being targeted.

The UN said it had confirmed 64 deaths and at least 241 injuries as of Monday, despite the international community's struggles to confirm their figures.