David Beckham gave control of his Instagram account this Sunday to a Ukrainian doctor who works in the city of Kharkiv. The gesture of the former British world football star is that his more than 70 million followers on the social network witness the barbarism produced by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Videos and photographs were posted on the Instagram account of the former Manchester United and Real Madrid player that followed Iryna, a child anesthesiologist and head of the regional perinatal center, during a day's work amid the Russian siege.
“The first few days were very difficult. We had to learn how to work under the bombings and attacks,” said the doctor.
Among the stories published, the Ukrainian doctor showed the narrow basement through which all pregnant women and mothers with their newborn babies were evacuated on the first day of the Russian invasion. Photos were also published showing the neonatology rooms that rely on oxygen generators donated by Unicef. Also the video of a mother with her baby who was born with respiratory problems and whose house was destroyed.
Iryna said that they work non-stop, tirelessly. “We're probably risking our lives, but we don't think about it at all. We love our work... The doctors and nurses here worry, we cry, but none of us will give up,” he said.
“The doctors and nurses here worry and cry, but we don't give up,” he added.
Beckham invited his millions of supporters to donate to charities that are working in Ukraine to ensure access to food, water and medicine, and to help all civilian victims.
“Thanks to their donations, the oxygen generators they have received are helping newborns survive in terrible conditions,” he said.
Meanwhile, the humanitarian situation continues to worsen. “The war in Ukraine is so devastating that 10 million people have fled, either as internally displaced persons or as refugees abroad,” said UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi on Sunday.
The humanitarian situation in Mariupol, as in other besieged cities, is dramatic.
Some families reported that bodies were lying on the streets for days and that they went hungry and thirsty on nights of intense cold in basements with freezing temperatures.
The bombings also severely damaged Azovstal's steel and metallurgical plant in Mariupol, a port and industrial city crucial for steel exports from the east of the country.
“One of the largest metallurgical plants in Europe is destroyed. The economic losses for Ukraine are immense,” said Deputy Lesia Vasylenko.
In the north of the country, the mayor of Chernigov, Vladislav Atroshenko, described the situation in his city as an “absolute humanitarian catastrophe”.
“Indiscriminate artillery fire continues in residential areas, dozens of civilians, children and women die,” he told television. “There is no electricity, no heating or water, the infrastructure of the city is completely destroyed.”
The attacks have not stopped in recent days in the capital, Kiev, in Mikolaiv and in Kharkiv, a large Russian-speaking city in the northwest, where at least 500 people have died since the start of the war, according to official Ukrainian figures.
The UK Ministry of Defense said that Russia “has failed to gain control of airspace and relies heavily on remotely launched weapons from the relative safety of Russian airspace to attack targets in Ukraine.”
According to the Ukrainian army, Russian troops have carried out 291 missile attacks and 1,403 air raids since the invasion began on February 24.
In a Russian-language intervention published on Saturday night through Sunday, Zelensky stated that the bodies of Russian soldiers were scattered on the battlefields and had not been collected.
“I want to ask the citizens of Russia, what have they done to them for years so that they do not notice their losses?” , he added, stating that, according to him, more than 14,000 Russian soldiers have died since the beginning of the invasion. Russia talks about 500 dead.
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