The woman in the maternity ward, what’s the story behind the iconic photo?

 

The jury of the World Press Photo Contest has announced its four regional winners. Many of the images highlight the reality of the war in Ukraine. They were taken in March during the siege of Mariupol after Russian forces invaded the country in February 2022. They document the atrocities that followed before the city fell in May. One of the images, a photo of a heavily pregnant woman following an airstrike on a maternity hospital, has become one of the defining images of the war.