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Ukrainian mother shielded baby from blast as civilian toll mounts

Olga, a 27-year-old Ukrainian woman seriously wounded while sheltering her baby from shrapnel blasts amid Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, holds her baby Victoria in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 20, 2022, in this still image taken from video. Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital/via Reuters TV/Handout via REUTERS

Olga, a 27-year-old Ukrainian woman seriously wounded while sheltering her baby from shrapnel blasts in Kyiv, recalled the shock as she saw blood covering her child after a missile strike that shattered glass across the room.

"I was wounded in the head, and blood started flowing. And it all flowed on the baby," said Olga, sitting on a bed at the Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital where she was being treated.

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