B.auction open the internet or watch the news to find ourselves continuously immersed in pictures of the war in Ukraine: people fleeing, bloody faces, families taking refuge underground to survive the bombing of the Russians. But there are some frames that, for the emotional significancethey affect us more than others and – in spite of themselves – they become the symbol of the historical moment we are living.
One of these depicts a pregnant woman, surprised by the bombing while he was in the hospital, close to give birth. AND Marianna Podgurskayaone young blogger. His little girl it came to light smoothly despite his daring escape from the hospital. To report the news of the birth is the journalist Olga Tokariuk on his Twitter profile.
Marianna Podgurskaya accused of being fake news
Everything about the photo strikes us: the bloodied and wounded face as the woman rushes – with a baby bump in the ninth month – down the stairs, the almost adolescent pajamas, white with polka dots and with teddy bears, which make herself a little girl. And then, again, it scenario of death and destruction around herwho runs away with the bags full of his personal belongingsquickly pick up before you run away.
That March 9, the Russians destroyed the maternity and gynecology ward, causing three victims and 17 injured. Not to mention the machinery, medical devices, cradles for premature babies, drugs, medicines: everything has been destroyed.
There Russian propaganda, however, has tried in every way to pass this image off as fake news.
The Twitter profile of the Russian embassy in Italy.
The Russians argue that Marianna got paid to stage a fake escape, with blood and fake wounds. To support this on Twitter insane thesis – the case of Podgurskaya is only one among thousands of people injured as they try to save their lives – there are the Russian embassies of the United Kingdom and Italy. Now there remains at least the hope that Twitter take action early in closing these profiles that spread even more hatred and misinformation.
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