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Mia, the baby from the Kiev air raid shelter
Photo:
Hannah Hopko
A child has apparently been born in an air raid shelter in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev amid the Russian invasion.
Ukrainian activist Hanna Hopko posted pictures and a video of a newborn named Mia on Facebook on Friday.
In her contribution, Hopko called on Russian and Belarusian mothers to demonstrate against the Russian war in Ukraine.
The picture was shared thousands of times and apparently also touched the Ukrainian President's wife Olena Zelenska.
Volodymyr Zelenskyj's wife wrote on Facebook that the birth should have taken place "under completely different conditions and under a peaceful sky".
That is what children should see.
Instead, Kiev has been the focus of the Russian war of aggression for days.
After the start of the invasion on Thursday morning, Russian ground forces advanced into the greater Kiev area within hours.
With its three million inhabitants, the Ukrainian capital is considered the most important target for the invaders.
The subway traffic in the metropolis has been completely stopped, the subway stations now serve as shelters for the residents.
Numerous people have been seeking refuge from Russian rocket attacks there for days.
Zelenska wrote an emotional post, in which she wrote that in the days since the war began, Ukrainians had "become an army."
"The children born in bomb shelters will live in a peaceful country that has defended itself."
The President and his family as the first enemy targets
The Ukrainian President Zelenskyj is considered to be at risk in the Russian attack on Kiev - and with him his family, as Zelenskyj said: »According to our information, the enemy has identified me as the number one target.
And my family as goal number two«.
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Just like her husband, Selenska doesn't seem to be influenced by it.
In her Facebook post, she called for donating blood for soldiers and victims of the Russian attacks and reporting the movement of enemy vehicles.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense had previously called on the people of Kiev to prepare so-called Molotov cocktails for battle and to report sightings of Russian military technology.
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