A pregnant woman photographed after a Russian strike on a maternity hospital has died, The A.P. reports.

The picture captured the struggling and chaos of the battle in Ukraine right away: a pale pregnant girl clutching her stomach as she was carried on a stretcher, the red-and-black polka dot sheet beneath her a stark distinction to the smoking soil, stripped timber and blasted-out maternity hospital round her.

The scene that adopted a Russian missile strike on the hospital within the besieged metropolis of Mariupol final week was documented by journalists from the information company The Related Press. It was printed on the entrance pages of newspapers together with The New York Occasions, a grim image of how Russia’s marketing campaign in Ukraine was more and more concentrating on civilians.

On Monday The A.P. stated it had realized that the girl within the photograph and her child had died.

With web connections severed, telephone strains lower and mobile service disabled, The A.P. is likely one of the few information organizations nonetheless in a position to report from Mariupol. In an article printed on Monday, The A.P. stated that after the Russian strike on March 9, the girl was taken to a different hospital. Realizing that she was shedding her child, the information group stated, she pleaded with medics: “Kill me now!”

Neither the girl nor her child could possibly be saved. The hospital staff didn’t get her title, The A.P. reported, earlier than her husband and father retrieved her physique.

Responding to worldwide condemnation of the strike, Russian officers argued that the hospital had been commandeered as a base by Ukrainian forces. Moscow’s ambassador to the United Nations dismissed the A.P. photographs as “faux information.”