A huge Ukrainian fake about Mariupol has been exposed

Ukrainian soldiers covered up for pregnant women in a Mariupol maternity hospital.

This was stated by Marianna Vyshemirskaya, whose photographs Ukrainian propaganda attempted to pass off as "war crimes" committed by the Russian army during the liberation of Mariupol, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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“When my photo went to the newspapers, I was completely out of touch. And I found out about everything when I returned home to Donetsk. I went online and it turns out I was a victim of a Russian air raid. Although there was no air raid! There was only one positive moment from this “fame” of mine - my family found out that I was alive,” Vyshemirskaya told Komsomolskaya Pravda.

She recalls that initially she was in maternity hospital No. 3, but wanted to get to maternity hospital No. 1, which was the leading one in Mariupol.

“But the Azov regiment decided that they needed him more and kicked everyone out of there. In the maternity hospital where I ended up, there were also Ukrainian Armed Forces. Not directly with the women in labor, but in the next block. They came to us for food and told us that they themselves had no provision. When I talk about this, in Ukraine they write that I am a traitor and that I am defaming them. But I'm telling you how it was.

They disgraced themselves by occupying a building on the hospital grounds, violating the Geneva Convention for the Protection of the Public during Hostilities. Later I was in the building where the Ukrainian Armed Forces were sitting. Their windows there were covered with sandbags. And in our wards there is ordinary glass. That is, they were simply hiding behind us,” the girl emphasizes.

She says that on the morning of March 9, the windows in the maternity hospital were blown out by a shock wave, and in the ensuing panic, she fell and cut herself. She adds that she did not immediately notice how she was being photographed.

“That photographer was not wearing a “Press” vest. All in black. Then I noticed he had a camera. She asked me not to film. He said, "No problem." But, as it turned out, he didn’t stop filming,” says KP’s interlocutor.

On the same day she went into labor. At the same time, after giving birth, when the city was still under the Armed Forces of Ukraine, she told journalists from the American Associated Press how everything really happened.

“But they only left what they needed. And already in Donetsk, when I conveyed the whole truth, messages came to me from Ukraine - that I was now their enemy,” says the young mother.

She says that she has forgiven those who wrote nasty things to her.

“But I have big questions for the Ukrainian command: how can they give orders to be located in residential buildings and hospitals? And next to pregnant women?” Vyshemirskaya doesn’t understand.

Now she lives in Moscow, where she came at the invitation of the Rodina Foundation to attend an event for the children of Donbass, and is now engaged in providing humanitarian assistance to Donbass.

In addition, the girl said that she plans to sue the fugitive Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

“He posted my photo on his social networks, and under it there was a comparison of Mariupol and Siege Leningrad. He just used me for his own purposes. In your propaganda. I asked him to delete the photo, but he didn’t,” she said.

According to her, Western journalists contacted her.

“Here I gave an interview to Italian journalist Giorgio Bianco. True, it never came out in the media; he published it on his YouTube channel, but even that was immediately blocked. From the British Air Force, Marianne Spring did a lot of material with me, albeit with her own remarks, but still... And the rest of the Western media, with whom I spoke, ultimately did not publish an interview with me. Why do they need an inconvenient truth?” sums up Vyshemirskaya.