She was pale. The rubber band was used to pull her brown hair back. The cartoon unicorns were added to her bloody pyjama pant. Her father was also wounded and brought her in, with his head bandaged and bloody.
The medical team administered oxygen to her chest and tried desperately to revive it. Her mother stood beside the ambulance, weeping.
“Take her out!” Get her out! “We can do it!” shouted a hospital worker, pushing a wheelchair to the ambulance.
The doctor and nurse huddled around the girl as she was being raced inside. One doctor gave her an injection. One tried to revive her using a defibrillator. A nurse wept. A nurse wept as a doctor in blue medical scrubs pumped oxygen into her and looked straight at the camera of the Associated Press videojournalist who was allowed to enter.
He screamed angrily, “Show it to Putin.” “The eyes of this baby, and the crying doctors.”
The little girl, whose identity was not immediately known at the time, couldn’t be saved. The doctor gently reached over her face and closed her eyes.
Her naked body was covered in her brightly colored jacket made of polyester, which she now covered with blood.
