Olga's feat: she saved her daughter from Russian shrapnel by protecting her with her own body

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, with a conspicuous blood-soaked bandage around her head, stripped of clothes and a body full of cuts and bruises, nurses her one-month-old baby on a hospital gurney.

Protected by a thermal blanket, her mother stares at the camera lens as she immortalizes them, while the baby's husband and father comforts them standing by the bed.

The image comes from

, Ukraine, and bears witness to the difficulties of living with a child in a besieged city.

, that's the woman's name, arrived at the

the morning of Friday, March 18, together with her husband

and the baby.

The family came from one of the

districts affected by Russian bombing.

According to the man, he and his wife heard the shots all night, getting closer and closer, until, in the morning, the shelling was already close to his house.

"When I went down to the patio I saw that a grenade had hit the nursery that was close to our house. There were no longer roofs, windows and doors in all the neighboring houses.

," Dmitro said once he arrived at the hospital.

At that moment, the woman, who was feeding the little girl,

, probably saving her life.

Both

and

were injured.

They were immediately taken to the hospital, where she underwent surgery and received treatment for her leg injuries.

.

Dmitro, Olga's husband, treated for injuries. FACEBOOK

The photos were posted on the hospital's Facebook page and taken by

.

It is in the social profile of the hospital where the information of the family, who is still being treated at the center, has been released.

"At the hospital, the father was treated for shrapnel wounds to the leg, her mother underwent surgery, all the fragments were removed and the girl was unharmed," the doctors said.

The images are reminiscent of other harrowing photographs of this

.

The shots by AP photographer

, who first captured the despair of the parents of Kiril, the 18-month-old baby who died under the bombs in

the agony of the pregnant woman photographed after the attack on the city's children's hospital, brought to safety on a stretcher and who later died before giving birth due to the serious injuries she suffered.

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