I took this ~ a week ago about 3 minutes after 2 missile strikes about 3km away (smoke in the middle of picture), air raid sirens blaring, but as you can no doubt tell from the image, ppl were just strolling along like it was just a normal event.
She also has a different face.
That's the Russian interview that you asked about earlier.Article: Vishegirskaya confirms in the new interview that she was injured in the attack and that the woman on the stretcher was someone else.
Mrs. Vishegirskaya is alive, "stretcher woman" is dead. They can't be the same person.Article: Dr. Timur Marin said Saturday that the woman’s pelvis had been crushed and her hip detached. Her baby was delivered via cesarean section but showed “no signs of life,” he said.
They tried to save the woman, and “more than 30 minutes of resuscitation of the mother didn’t produce results,” Marin said. “Both died.”
No, you just come off as someone who hasn't read my posts.
I gather now she is in the Donbas region, I'm not sure if its a region controlled by Russian forces or not.
my brain flipped when I got to this section:
She filmed an interview with Denis Seleznev, a blogger who is a vocal supporter of Russian-backed separatists. There was speculation how free she was to say what she wanted.
Fleeing to Donbas is an unusual choice, that she made it puts her in an interesting minority. Many of our local refugees are from Mariupol, and it seems that many more went west, some via Kyiv, than went east. There seems some denial, even some cognitive dissonance, in that article; I wouldn't necessarily give much weight to any particular details in her reports.
Comments Marianna made in her interview with Denis were cherry-picked by Russian officials to claim soldiers forced Marianna and the other pregnant women to act as human shields.
But Marianna told me there were no Ukrainian military stationed in the building where she was. She says she saw Ukrainian soldiers in the oncology unit in the building opposite the maternity unit. It's unclear whether they were based there or not.
Nevertheless, Marianna's interview with Denis Seleznev was used by the Kremlin to suggest further falsehoods.
Russian officials have seized on her comments that she doesn't believe the explosions at the hospital were caused by an airstrike, implying that the damage was Ukrainian shelling.
"The typical sound a plane makes when it flies overhead is impossible to miss," Marianna tells me, saying that she did not hear one.
But here she is mistaken. The AP journalists documented evidence it was an airstrike, including video where a plane can be heard. At the scene both a soldier and a police officer say the attack was an airstrike.
Also visible in photos is a huge crater which munition experts say could only have been caused by an airstrike.
"I personally did not see this crater, but I saw the video of it," Marianna says. "In reality I can't blame anyone - because I didn't see with my own eyes where for certain [the explosions] came from."
From the BBC page:
Article: This is her first interview with a major western media outlet after being evacuated to her hometown in a part of Donbas controlled by Russian-backed separatists.
[...] Marianna's relatives and friends have assured me she is now safe.
What would that be?
no, but the fact that it's her home town suggests to me that she has moved in with her parents (or his?). It's what I'd do in her situation, because it would make my life easier and less stressful than any alternative.
where does it say she says she is denying it? i see the Russian saying she is denying it.
"The typical sound a plane makes when it flies overhead is impossible to miss," Marianna tells me, saying that she did not hear one.
But here she is mistaken. The AP journalists documented evidence it was an airstrike, including video where a plane can be heard. At the scene both a soldier and a police officer say the attack was an airstrike.
But Marianna told me there were no Ukrainian military stationed in the building where she was. She says she saw Ukrainian soldiers in the oncology unit in the building opposite the maternity unit.
a big hospital complex typically consists of several buildings
fair enough, so she might be saying they were based there. thanks for pointing my misreading out to me.
