A woman who survived the shelling of a maternity hospital in Mariupol gave birth to a daughter days later.
The maternity hospital was hit by a Russian airstrike on Wednesday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russian troops of hitting the building. According to Ukrainian authorities, three people were killed and 17 were wounded in the strike.
A photo of a bloodied Vishegirskaya fleeing the hospital made global headlines, prompting the Russian Embassy to falsely claim she was a crisis actor, saying she was not at the hospital at the time of the attack.
The Embassy's post was taken down for violating the platform's abusive-behavior policy, but it did prompt a flood of online hate against Vishegirskaya on her account, which has more than 82,000 followers.
The most recent post of the blogger holding baby clothes had over 25,000 comments, with some commenters saying she was taking part in a fake photo shoot.
—Oleksandra Matviichuk (@avalaina) March 10, 2022
The woman has given birth to a girl. Photographs taken on Friday show a woman lying in a hospital bed with her husband and daughter in her arms.
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