Images of the woman being rushed to an ambulance have shocked the world, epitomising the horror of the Russian assault. Ukrainian authorities have said that the city of Mariupol has been subject to relentless bombardment since Russian troops surrounded it on the second of March. Medics added that the mother’s husband and father arrived to retrieve her body, so she would not have to end up in the mass graves being dug for many of Mariupol’s growing number of dead.