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Michael Howie

Marianna Vyshemirsky: Ukrainian mum pictured at shelled Mariupol hospital tells of death threats after Russia’s ‘acting’ lies

Marianna Vyshemirsky standing outside a maternity hospital that was damaged by shelling in Mariupol

(Picture: AP)

A Ukrainian beauty influencer who survived an attack on a Mariupol maternity hospital has revealed how she received death threats after she was falsely accused of “acting”.

An image of heavily pregnant Marianna Vyshemirsky outside the damaged hospital, wrapped in a duvet with her forehead bloodied, appeared on newspaper front pages around the world and went viral on the internet in the aftermath of the shelling in March.

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